DECAPITATION OF TROOPERS.
OFFICIAL BUILDINGS BURNED. PEKIN, 12th October. , Following the decapitation, of three' troopers at Wuchang, nil the provincial • troop* mutinied, and are now in poawe. eion of the town. All the official buildings, including the Treasury, have been burned. Th© viceroy ha* taken refute on a Chinese gunboat. General Chang-Kao.Yuan. wu killed by a bomb. He was one of the ablest officer* in the Chinese Army. Document* have been eeiaed showing that the revolutionist* intended to make the province, of Hupeh their base, and from thence envelope the Yang-tee pro. vince*. The Tnotai ha* requested the Ooimtls to instruct foreign warships to guard tie harbour, and the Viceroy htm urgetttly, appealed for the despatch of a division from Tientsin. The ConAiik at Hankau have teftaed 1 the request to patrol tie river. The revolutionists have written, reqtteeting the Consul* to observe neu» trality. The rebels have attacked the local troop* which are fleeing towards Hankau. It ir feared that a state of chaos in the currency will follow the destruction of the Treasury which' supplied Wuchang, Hankau, and Hangyang jvith notee. [Chang.Kao-Yuan was a native of Anhm. He waa appointed a general in the SzeChuan province in 1902,]
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXII, Issue 90, 13 October 1911, Page 7
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