AFFAIRS IN CHINA
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EXECUTION OF GENERALS S ATISFACTION DEMANDED. (Received Last Night, 11.5 o'clock.) PEKING, August 21. ' The Assembly was in an uproar, and it declared that the explanation of the generals' execution was unsatisfactory.
The attendance cf the Premier and Minister of War is demanded to-mor-row.
General Yuan Shi Kai has declined
The Government is unconcerned, and is prepared to take strong measures, and declares that there is ample proof of their guilt. Meanwhile southern papers are fanning tho strife. Heavy firing is reported at Wuchang since daybreak. Dr Sun Yat Sen is journeying from Shanghai to Peking, and will conou'L with Count Tang Shao Yi at Tientsin.
POPULAR OPINION. • EXECUTION JUSTIFIED. (Received Last Night, 11.5 o'clock.) LONDON. August 20. The Times' Hankow correspondent .states that local opinion lias received the execution of Chang Chinurto, one of tlie. Hapeh generals, with equanimity, if being generally considered that he was a troublesome rascal, and deserved his fate.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10700, 22 August 1912, Page 5
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166AFFAIRS IN CHINA Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10700, 22 August 1912, Page 5
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