THE CHINESE CRISIS.
CABLE NEWS
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MARTIAL LAW AT PEKING.
RIVAL PROCLAMATIONS ISSUED
A SANGUINARY FIGHT
(Received Last Night, 10.15 o'clock.) PEKING, July 24. Martial law has been proclaimed at Peking. It synchronises with the formal es. tablishment of a Confederate Government at Hanking. The editors of the Kuo-Ming-Tang party's newspapers have been arrested and the papers have ceased publication.
Colonel Brucht has ejected Tong, the southerners' nominee as head of the Chinese telegraphs at Shanghai. Colonel Brucht alleges that he acted under instructions from the Consular body. The Kuo-Ming-Tang party regard this as an affront by foreigners. Dr Sun-Yat-Sen's manifesto recounts the southern grievances, and expresses a determination to oppose Yuan-Shih-Kai as firmly as he did the Manchus. Yuan-Shih-Kai has issued a manifesto, stripping Generals Hwang-Ho-Hing and Chen-Chi-Mei of their rank. He offers a pardon and a reward to any of his followers who arrest or kill them. The manifesto concludes that the President is determined to uphold the Republic.' Yuan-Shih-Kai's declaration has eli- . cited- the Approval of all the Legations except those of Russia and Japan. The Chinese press is bitterly blaming the system of the foreign settlements concession® which are enabling the rebels to perfect their plans. Three thousand rebels attacked the Kiangnan arsenal at Shanghai. Two thousand defenders made a long fight, and aided by cruisers, repulsed the rebels, who lost eight hundred.
The southerners are awaiting th? arrival of 15,000 Cantonese at Lin-Hwai-Kwan.
The Government threaten to sink every vessel, foreign or Chinese, conveying Cantonese.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 25 July 1913, Page 5
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253THE CHINESE CRISIS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 25 July 1913, Page 5
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