CHINESE UPHEAVAL.
THE ABDICATION. THE REVOLUTIONARY FORCES. Bj 1 eleerarh-PrMS AsMeiatlon-twpjrlehl (Rec, February 13, 0.10 a.m.) Peking, February 12. The Emperor's two guardians, the Dowager Empress and Yuan-Shih-Kiu, agreed to issue three edicts to-day, the first approving of the proposed treatment of the Hanchus, the second exhorting the people to remain quiet, and ttio third renouncing the Throne, approving of the Republic, and ordering Yuan-Shih-Kai to establish a Government in conjunction with the Nanking Government. The Revolutionaries have collected 55,000 troops at Nanking, and 45,000 at Wuchang. They will soon lave an aggregate of 150,00 well-drilled soldiers. Nnnking telegrams state that the location of the eapital is the only outstanding difficulty. General Homer Lea, the American military adviser to the Republican Government, is seriously ill.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1362, 13 February 1912, Page 5
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125CHINESE UPHEAVAL. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1362, 13 February 1912, Page 5
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