FALL OF PEKIN
SENSATIONAL REPORT,
! ; STORY NOT CONFIRMED
(Received November 8, 8.5 a.m.)
NEW YORK, November 7,
The flight of the Chinese Emperor and the fall of Pekin is reported by telegrams to the San Francisco Chinese papers. The reports have hot been confirmed. ■.■".'.,
PEKIN, November' 7.
It ia reported in Shanghai and Singapore that Pekin has fallen. Reuter 'a Pekin correspondent to-day does not mention the matter. LONDON, November 7.
The Daily (Mail's correspondent at Tientsin states that Pekin was safe at noon yesterday.
NEW GOVERNOR ASSASSINATED
(Received November 8, 8.10 a.m.)
PEKIN, November 7. Manchu soldiers assassinated Wu, the new Governor or Shansi.
RUSSIAN AND BRITISH TROOPS
(Received November 8, 8.30 a.m.)
: , November?. \ Two hundred and British troops at Honkgong have, been to Shanghai, and two hundred Russian troops have been sent to Tientsin.
RAILWAYS SAID TO BE CAPTURED.
PREPARATIONS FOR AN OUT-
BREAK
Received This Morning, 12.20 o'clock,
PEKIN, November 8
All the railways leading from the capi+al are believed to be in the hands of the revolutionaries.
Some of the legations inre making preparations against an outbreak. Prenoh citizens have been ordered into the legation quarters.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10473, 9 November 1911, Page 5
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