A CHINESE REBELLION.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 167, 1 July 1911, Page 3 (Supplement)

A CHINESE REBELLION.

SEVERAL CHTIES SACKED. In the rebellion that broke out recently n Canton and in the surrounding parts of Southern China, great damage was done to property by revolutionary bauds. The immediate, cause the outbreak is understood to be jhe recent arrest of the leaders of the advanced” sections of the people, for th* 1 tlie headquarters a Ji, + l n bdl i? n ’ . Whi s h was directed against the Manchu dynasty, was led by Mu-Sum a Chinaman, who has been educated in Japan. ..A 1 Canton itself the palace of tho iceroy was attacked and burned clown and the streets were thick with dead Ixidms The rebels tried to rush an arsenal, hut were kept out. They then stormed into a big store and barri aded themselves in. From this building they hurled bombs and fired into .he ranxs of the troops. The building yas set on fire and many rebels were burned to ueath. Some, unable to fi’cape, shot themselves rather than fall into the hands of the Government. I mdmg themselves driven from point to point the revolutionary bands left the city and began a pillaging expedition in the suburbs.

Large bodies visited Fatshan, a big manufacturing town of nearly 500.0G9 inhabitants, and known as the Birmingham of China. Here- they set fire to the town, and many houses were burned. At Shiuting they murdered the Pre--oct. At Samshui they slew the magistrate M herever tliex- approached near the river Chinese gunboats shelled them, and 200 were killed in this wav. A British force with quick-firing guns was landed, and the guns mounted to protect the quarters of Canton where foreigners reside

'The Chinese authorities acted with summary severity. A hundred people were arrested and beheaded for rebellion, and many more will suffer the same fate.