REVOLT IN CHINA

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10463, 30 October 1911, Page 5

REVOLT IN CHINA

CABLE NEWS

United Press Association—-By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.

A MILITARY DICTATORSHIP.

CONFERRED ON YUAN-SHI-KAI

(Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.)

PEKIN, October 28. • An Imperial Edict has been issued, giving Yuan-Shi-Kai a Military Dictatorship, and recalling Gener.il Y.in Chang. The rank of Imperial Minister has been conferred upon Yuan-Shi-Kai, who is reorganising the forces under his own nominees as divisional eommendera.

He is constituting a first army l.nder General Fangu-ko-chang. A second army is mobilising under Gen<yral Suan-chigui, and a third will subsequently be organised. The Dowager Empress has contributed one million taels.(amout £125,000) towards the expenses ,of the campaign, and is assisting to replace tlie capture.d treasure. , The National Assembly has memoralised the Throne, requesting that a Parliament be formed and the Cabinet reconstructed, the Manchu nobles to be excluded. It also recommends the pardoning of the present rebels. • Several members of the Assembly demanded the. decapitation .of Chengr suan-knai, and an .attemptmade to assassinate him.

The British Minister hastily convened "representatives of the "nations who participated in the recent loans, and they vigorously protested ..against the proposed barbarity. . 1 Cheng has fled to Tientsin, escorted by an armed American force.

■ The Imperial troops have , captured Chengtu.

AN IMEPMAL VICTORY,

OUTSKIRTS OF HANKOW 000U-

PIED.

Received" This Morning, 12.20 o'clock, PKKIN, October 29.

An official report states that as a result of an engagement fought in a rainstorm, the imperial troops, showing great valour, captured large quantities of ammunition! Flushed with" victory, they then occupied the outskirts of the city of Hankow.

•Imperial reinforcements are hurrying to protect the railway.