CHINESE REBELLION.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 30, 5 February 1912, Page 7

CHINESE REBELLION.

t tm AN EDICT. •YUAN SHIH-KAI TO FORM A 1 REPUBLIC. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. (Received February 5, 11.30 a.m.) PEKIN, 4th February. An edict has been issued directing General Yuan Shih-Kai to form a Republic in conjunction with the Southern Republicans. DISORDERS FEARED IN MUKDEN. CANTON, UNDER A MILITARY DICTATOR. EUROPEANS PREPARING FOR EMERGENCES. PEKIN, 3rd February. Yttan Shih-Kai is awaiting the concentration of 20,000 Chinese troops at Pekin before the publication of the abdication. Advices from Mukden state that payment of officials has been suspended and disorders are feared. People are leaving Mukden wholesale ana going northwards. Mt. W. Maxwell, Daily Mail war correspondent, describes the impending troubles at Canton. The majority of the garrison consists of bandits, pirates, and mercenaries, who are likely to maintain discipline only as long as they are paid. The city is under a military dictator. Merchants have removed their valuable goods from the Island of Sameen. Trade with Hong Kqng has ceased. Troops whereon most reliance was placed are proceeding north. Europeans are preparing for emergencies at Sameen, which is a joint British-French Concession; the island is mined and fortified and the garrison of 300 is supported by British', French, German, American, and Japanese gunboats. RADJWAY BRD3GE DYNAMITED. NINE CHINESE KILLED. (Received February 5, 11.30 a.m.) PEKIN", 4th February. A J>ier on a railway Bridge near Shan Hai-Twan having been dynamited, the Nuken train toppled over. Nine Chinese were killed and twentyone injured. Some foreigners wert unhurt.