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CHAOS IN CHINA

CABLE NEWS

(United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph — Copyright.)

HOPELESS FINANCIAL TANGLE

RUMOURS OF FURTHER REVOL-

UTJONS

(Rccoived July 10, 10.15 a.m.)

PORT DARWIN, July 10

Chinese files stats that China politically is in. a dhaotiic condition, a;iid in a hopeles tangle financally. There is wholesale swindling and corruption, particularly in the direction of the high military officers drawing pay ifor htousands of non-existent troops.

With the avowed purpose of putting down lawlessness, wholesale decapitations and other cruelties are practised under the new regieme equal to some of the most bloody records under the old Manchu rule. The Central Government is without revenue, owing to the provincial government retaining all money collected from the respective provinces. The country is flooded with Government money that is practically valueless.

Hordes of bandits are ravaging certain districts, and piracies on the West Eiver and other waterways are still frequent, despite the fact that most of the rivers are patrolled by gunboats. It is alleged that many innocent people have been beheaded, whose only crime was: thai tfiey excited the enmity of some official in power. There is general discontent over tl'e present conditions, and there are rumours that further revolutions are being hatched in Hongkong.

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Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10684, 11 July 1912, Page 5

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Tapeke kupu
205

CHAOS IN CHINA Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10684, 11 July 1912, Page 5

CHAOS IN CHINA Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10684, 11 July 1912, Page 5

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