REVOLT IN CHINA
REGENT'S ABDICATION URGED. TO AVOID SACRIFICE OF LIVES. Received This Morning, 12.35 o'clock. PEKIN, November 14. i An edict appoints Yuan-Shih-Kai to the command of all the troops in the vicinity of Pekin. Wa Ting Fang, at Shanghai, has I telegraphed to the Regent/urging his abdication. He points out that, apart i from Republicanism, there is no way to avoid the continued sacrifice of lives, or .to preserve peace. He promises the Regent a sufficiency to enable him to live in style compatible with his birth. Outlawry continues at Canton. Robbers are terrorising the inhabitants. The revolutionaries through a misunderstanding, slew one hundred Luaneee revolutionary' troops at the Fatshan theatre. Fifteen 'hundred Yunan soldiers have escaped from Waichow, and arc pillaging and burning villages, and murdering women and children. They are now surrounding by rebels and fierce fighting is proceeding.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10478, 15 November 1911, Page 5
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143REVOLT IN CHINA Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10478, 15 November 1911, Page 5
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