REPORTED FALL OF PEKIN.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13527, 8 November 1911, Page 5

REPORTED FALL OF PEKIN.

Eeceived November 8, 8.5 a.m. NEW YOEK, November 7. The flight of the Chinese Emperor and the fall of Pekin are reported in telegrams to San Francisco Chinese papers, but so far have not been confirmed. FURTHER RUMOURS. LONDON, November 7. It is reported at Shanghai and Singapore that Pekin has fallen, Eeuter’s Pekin correspondent to-day docs not mention tho matter, however. GOVERNOR OF SHANSI ASSASSINATED. PEKIN, • November 7. Manchu soldiers assassinated Wu, the new Governor of Shansi. KILLED WHILE ASLEEP. Eeceived November 8, 9.5 a.m. PEKIN, November 7 Wu was killed while asleep in a- tent by assassins, who alleged he was a revolu- , tionary.'Wu, who was. a brilliant young officer, was educated in Japan and sympathised with reforms.. He was sent to Shansi to persuade the revolutionaries that their demands for, essential reforms, would be conceded. / Chang Shao Tseng proceeds on a Similar mission to Yangtsze. The Governor of Suchau has joined the rebels, who are in possession-of the southern half of. Kiangsu. . ” : ———~ . : T BRITISH TROOPS FOR SHANGHAI. PEKIN, November 7. Two hundred and fifty British troops from Hongkong have been sent to Shanghai and 200 Eussians from Tientsin. Tire Eegent’s brother, Tsaihsun, who was acting as Minister of the Navy, has disappeared, and is supposed to have fled. Li Yuan Hung insists that the Imperial family be pensioned, and proceed to Jehol. He proposes a republican union, the States of which will be as nearly as possible mutually independent. YOUNG CHINA LEAGUE IN SYDNEY. Eeceived November 8. 9.10 a.m. SYDNEY, November 8. A branch of the Young China League has been formed in Sydney, with the object of assisting the establishment of a republic in China.