PLIGHT OF PEKING.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1281, 9 November 1911, Page 5

PLIGHT OF PEKING.

HAS IT FALLEN? A SERIOUS OUTLOOK. RAILWAYS IN REBELS' HANDS. By Telenrapli—Press 'Association—Copyriebt (Eec. November 9, 0.20 a.m.) Peking, November 8. All tho railways leading I o the capital aro believed to bo in tho hands of tho nvolutionarios. Some Legations aro making preparations against an outbreak. All French citizens have been ordered into tho Legation quarters.

Peking, November 7. It is reported in Shanghai and Singapore that Peking has fallen. Reutor's Peking correspondent to-day docs not mention tho matter. New York November 7. The flight of tho Chinese Emperor and the fall of Peking is reported by telegrams to the San Francisco Chinese papers. The reports have not been confirmed. London, November 7. The "Daily Mail's" correspondent at Tientsin states that Peking was safe at noon to-day. GOVERNOR MURDERED. BY MANCHU SOLDIERS. Peking, November 1. Manchu soldiers assassinated Wu, the new Governor of Shansi. Wu was killed whilst asleep in his tent. The assassins alleged that Wu was a revolutionary. Wu was a brilliant young officer and received his education in Japan. Ho sympathised with the reform movement, and was sent to Shansi to persuade tho rovolutiona-ies that their demands were essential to reforms being conceded. General Chang-Shao-Feng proceeds on a similar mission to Yang-tze. THE REGENT'S BROTHER. DISAPPEARS. Pelting, November 7. Tho Regent's brother. Tsai-Hsun, Act-ing-Minister of the Navy, has disappeared. It is supposed he has fled. THE IMPERIAL FAMILY, SHOULD BE PENSIONED. Peking, November 7. Lin-Yuan-Hung, tho rebel President, insists that the Imperial family should bo pensioned and proceed to Jehol, 115 miles north-east of Peking. lie proposes a Republican Union, in which the States would be as nearly as possible mutually independent. REBELS' PROGRESS. Peking November 7. The Governor of Suchan has joined the rebels. The rebels nro in possession of tho southern half of Kiangsu.

BRITISH TROOPS. AT SHANGHAI. Peking, November 7. Two hundred and fifty British troops at Hong-Kong have been sent to Shanghai, and twii hundred Kussi-tn troops havo been sent to Tientsin. YOUNG CHINA LEAGUE. Sydney, November 3. A branch of the Young China League has been formed in Sydney, with the object of assisting tho establishment of a republic in China.