REVOLT IN CHINA

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10479, 16 November 1911, Page 5

REVOLT IN CHINA

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DOWAGER REGfcNT'S COMMANDS YUAN-SHIH-KAI PLEADED WITH. (Received Last Night, 11 o'clock.) PEKIN, November 15. Fierce fighting continues at Hanyang, Wuchang and Hankau. The revolutionaries have driven the Imperialists back, with a loss of four hundred killed and many wounded. An Imperial edict has been issued commanding Yuan-Shih-Kai to .accept the Premiership for the country's welfare. * The Dowager Regent accorded an audience to Yuan-Shih-Kai and the Viceroys and Governors of all the Provinces, and commanding jthem to select from three to five representatives to meet in Pekin and consult on the country's affairs. General Chank is returning. Ho remains at Tientsin until he is assured of the safety of the capital. The New York Herald's correspondent states that the Dowager Regent pegged, Yuan-Shih-Kai to save the country from dissolution. Yuan-Shih-Kai's attitude was noncommittal. He agreed only to give his decision after consulting the Assembly. MANCHU DYNASTY MUST GO. (Received Last Night, 11 o'clock.) SHANGHAI, Nov. 15. Wu-Ting-Fu, in a published address'to 'his foreign friends, states that under the Manolni Dynasty the foreign powers uraavailingly pleaded for a reformation of the national services. The promises made by the Dynasty in the past had proved delusions. Future promises would not permit of trust. The popular wish is that the Manchu Dynasty must go. Fourteen of the revolted? provinces will shortly establish a National Assembly at Shanghai. MAUCHURIA AND AUTONOMY. (Received November 15, 10 a.m.) PEKIN, November 14. Manchuria has proclaimed its autonomy. The Tartar general at Foochau hoisted the revolutionary flag, and then betrayed an approaching rebel party, the troops killing many. The general wat> subsequently captured and beheaded. The Viceroy of Foochau committed suicide.