CHINA'S CIVIL WAR.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1296, 27 November 1911, Page 5

CHINA'S CIVIL WAR.

HEAVY LOSSES. IMPERIALIST REPULSE, THIRTY-SIX ILOUKS' FIGHTING. D j Telecraph—Press Association—Cooyrisbt (Ece. November 27, 0.'.'0 a.m.) Peking, November '.'(>. Tlio Imperialists made an unsuccessful attempt to cross tlio river IfanUau, and wvro repulsed with heavy losses, after 116 hours' lighting. HOEEIBLE BARBARITIES. (Ecc. November 26, 5.5 p.m.) Vancouver, November 25. Recent arrivals from China relate that horrible barbarities have been perpetrated in connection with tlio revolution. Coolies caught looting at Hankow were tied together and thrown into burning buildings, others were tied to a long bamboo polo and driven into the river and shot dead. EECALLED FROM EXILE. Sydney, November 25. Tong Chai Chih, editor of tho "Tung Wah Times," the Chinese newspaper published in Sydney, and ouo of the leading mombers of the Chines© Empire Reform Association, who for years was sent into exile on account of his activity in the cause of roform, has received a cable message from General Yan, President of the Provincial Assembly, at Hunan, asking him to return immediately, as a Republican Government has been formed. This is interpretol as being an offer of office on the Board of Foreign Affairs, THE FOREIGN LEGATIONS. , ' Peking, November 24. • The Imperial Foreign Minister has decided to reinforce the Legation guards. REPUBLICAN CONSTITUTION. Paris, November 25. Sun Yat Sen, whom the Republicans want to make the first President of China, in an interview here, said that owiug to the variety of the customs and climatic differences, a Republic for China on tl«, lines of that of the United States would be the most suitable, each province proserving its autonorcy.