REVOLT IN CHINA

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10474, 10 November 1911, Page 5

REVOLT IN CHINA

HANKOW DESTROYED

DAMAGE ESTIMATED AT £10,000,000.

(Received Last Night, 8.55 o'clock.)

PEKIN, November 9. Two-thirds of Hankow has been destroyed by fire. The lowest estimate of the damage is £10,000,000. Four hundred thousand Chinese are destitute.

SIX THOUSAND TROOPS

MARCHING TO PEKIN

A REVOLUTIONARY VICTORY

(Received This Morning, 12.5 o'clock.)

PEKIN, November 9. | Six thousand troops are marching to | Pekin. . ! Some are at Fentgtai, seven miles j from the capital. J

Li Yuan Hung has refused Yuan Shih Kai's condition and replied that there was time to discuss terms. When the republican army was marching to Pekin the revolutionaries, with a loss of one hundred killed, captured the armory forts commanding Nanking. Two thousand Imperialists seceded upon the receipt of three hundred thousand tads. .

General Tush-Hang, upon orders from Pekin, then yielded.

AN AUSTRALIAN OPINION

HOW THE REBELS ARE ARMED

(Received Last Night, 8.55 o'clock.)

SYDNEY, November 9

Sun Johnson, editor of the "Chinese Herald," declares that Sun Yet Sen has issued millions of pounds of Treasury notes. That course has contributed largely to the success of the insurgents, enabling them to secure an almost unlimited supply of arms and ammunition. The patriots from whom they are buying will be repaid if the rebels are successful. If not, they will lose; but if it is for a good cause they will risk their lives if necessary.

PALACE TREASURE

SHIFTING TO JEHOL.

(Received November 9, 9 a.m.)

PEKIN, November 8. A Manchu. plot to murder members of the Assembly has- been discovered. Two hundred carts transported the Balace treasure to Jehol, 115 miles nortih-east of Pekin v to which place Lin-Yuan-Hung, the rebel president, insists that the Imperial family should proceed. ■'",'" ', Secret Palace conferenQes with Mongol'princes foreshadow the Court joining with the Mongols in seeking Russian protection.- -

PROPOSAL TO CUT A RAILWAY

(Received November 9, 9.5 .A.m.)

PEKIN, November 8

Prince Chun, the Regent, in order to prevent rebel troops arriving, proposed, to ciit the railway southward of Seengtai, but desisted upon Sir John Jordan, British Minister Plenipotentiary to Pekin, declaring that the British were entitled to operate the railway under the old agreement. Fighting is going on at Nankin. The Munehus are strongly entrenched ,in a position commanding the city.

MURDER OF WU

(Reseived November 9, 1 p.m.) '

PEKIN, November 8

Chinese here declare that the Court ordered the murder of Wti, the newly-, appointed Governor of Shan-si, whose assailants are said to have been Manchus.

Gannon have been mounted on the walls of the Forbidden City. The Court is preparing for flight, and has already sent the servants to Jehol. :

The revolutionaries are in possession of Fuchau (Kaingsi) and Taichau (Che-Kiang).