CHINESE RISING

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10464, 31 October 1911, Page 5

CHINESE RISING

CABLE NEWS

United Press Association—By Mentrie Telegraph—-Copyright.

REPORTED REBEL DEFEAT

WUCHANG TO BE BOMBARDED.

THE REPUBLICANS' HOLDING'S

(sßeeeived Last Night, 10.35 o'clock.)

PEKIN, October 30,

It is officially declared that six thousand rebels westward of Banka u offered little resistance to ten thousand Imperialists, and abandoned ihe main position at Kilometre 10, with all their guns and camp equipment, retreating utterly demoralised. Several hundred were wounded. San Chen Ping has notified his i)i- < tention to bombard Wuchang. Han Yang has requested the 'oreign ' shipping to withdraw out of range of the revolutionaries' guns. According to .Pekin correspondents, Yuan Shi Kai's supporters expect him to come to Pekin and assume the Premiership. The Republicans declare that they hold the chief cities in the Hunan Province, the capital of Kwingsi, Kiangsi and Amesui. Hence they control Yangtse. I They also possess forty war junks I at Hwajngchan.

The Imperial Treasury has sent one million taels of the military department to Szeehuan, whose new Viceroy has been ordered to enlist eight regiments. A consular report declares that Canton is turning a red republic. Re liter's Canton correspondent says that Canton is practically independent, inasmuch as the Viceroy alleging that it is impossible to find money, declined the Government's request for a large sum in the shape of special military contribution. The gentry have decided that Canton can care for itself, and not trouble about other province's. , The Manchu residents have agreed to abide by 'the decisions of 'the- Cantonese.

JAPANESE NEWSPAPERS.

(Hoeived This Morning, 12.5 o'clock)

TOKIO, October 30,

Newspapers insist that any loan to China must be- made jointly with the great Powers, lest independent action should imperil the Empire's integrity. •

MORE SOLDIERS REQUIRED.

PEKIN THREATENED

WILL THE NAVY BESERT?

(Received This Morning, 12.5 o'clock)

f LONDON, October 30. The Daily Mail's Pekin correspondent reports that Yuan Shi Kai asks for one hundred and twenty thousand more soldiers.

Chang Shoot Seng's soldiers at Lanchau threaten Pekin unless their demands are accepted.

Saho Len Ping has informed the Government that the navy will desert unless a political change is made.

DISQUIETING NEWS.

IMPERIAL TROOPS ON STRIKE

(Received This Morning, 12.5 o'clock)

LONDON, October 30

The Times' Pekin correspondent j reports most disquieting news, viz., the refusal of the Fortieth Brigade of the Twentieth Division at Hanlo'v to proceed south. General Chung Shapbeng, comman- j der of the Division, is in agreement ! with the men, and, acting in concert with the National Assembly, declined to take "the division to the front unless the Throne prepares a constitution only after consultation with the Assembly ; and. unless provision is made for the exclusion from the Cab T inet of member® of the Imperial family, and an amnesty is granted to all political offenders like Kang Yu Wei. The correspondent adds: "Chang Sha Beng received his training in Japan. The skirmish at Hankau, where thirty unmounted guns were seized during a rainstorm,, is paraded by the. Government as the fruits of a great victory, accompanied by much slaughter."

SUCCESS OF IMPERIAL TROOPS.

(Received October 30, 9 a.m.)

PEKIN, October 29.

Re uter's Agency reports that H inese gunboats supported General v in Chang's first army, -which captured two of the Republican positions ai.d advanced to within 500 yds of the strong rebel entrenchments vv--

ward of the Hankau' racecourse. .Operations were then temporarily suspended. Thirty Republican guns were r*pttire'd*. The ImDerialists had three < (beers and 87 men killed and 150 wo'ii'Ul. while the Republicans had -.0. «•«&-