CHINESE REVOLT.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 256, 16 October 1911, Page 5

CHINESE REVOLT.

WELL ORGANISED RISING. ARMY SEETHING WITH DISCONTENT. [PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT.] The ‘‘Daily Chronicle” publishes Dr. Sun Yat Sen’s letters to the An-glo-American group of bankers w hen visiting England in January last. The correspondence reveals that the rising has been carlfill engineered. He appealed for £.500.000 to assist the movement. He declared that the whole of Southern China was ready to rebel. The correspondence shows that a Chinese bank, three rice-mill owners at Bangkok, several merchants at Singapore, and three mine owners in the Malay States, whose property aggregates £2,000.000 offered American capitalists a guarantee of Dr. Sun Yat Sen’s loan. While the capitalists were enquiring Dr Sun Yat Sen went on a secret mission, and afterwards reported that various divisions of the modern drilled army south of the Yangtse were strongly pro-revolution, and that an understanding had been reached whereby they would come over when the revolution had gained a footing. The loyalty of seven divisions was pending when Ynenshikai was roy. and had greatly diminished since Yuenshikai’s degradation. Dr. Sun Yat Sen added that another division in Manchuria was commanded by a revolutionary general, and could be depended upon, to operate against Pekin. Many officers and sailors in the navy were also revolutionists.

The report continued that the recent intervention of the Chinese populace in the Makao dispute between China and Portugal showed that the whole of the South was ready for a general uprising. The present position resembles a forest of dry wood, and required one spark, which is a half-million loan. The leaders are not men of financial standing, but of ability equal to any in the world. Dr. Sun Yat Sen offered the financiers the right, of appointing nominees to control the finances, and that the revolution loan would be repaid many times over when a city like Canton had been captured. THE MANCHU DYNASTY. ITS DOAVNFALL CERTAIN. The Pekin correspondent of “The Times” says that the' sympathies of an immense mass of educated Chinese in Pekin are with the revolutionaries, and that there is little sympathy for the corrupt and effete Mancini dynasty. The outlook for the throne is ominous. REFORM GOVERNMENT PROCLAIMED. REBEL SUCCESES. Pekin, Oct. 15. The Reform Government has been proclaimed at Hankow. Revolutionaries informed the Consuls that all treaties and loans already contracted would be respected. Hwang, a civilian leader of insurgents, is believed to be a former associate of Dr. Sun Yat Sen. It is reported that the soldiers at Hupeh have not been paid for a year. Yin Chang, generalissimo of the northern army, has been ordered to Hankow with 12,000 Imperial troops. Yuanshikai has been recalled. He has been appointed a viceroy of the provinces of Hupe and Hunan, and ordered to Wuchang to re-establish the Imperial authority of the Mancinis. Corpses strew Wuchang. Fifty were found outside one gate. It is estimated that 8t)() Manehus have been killed. Reuter reports from Wuchang that the rebel army numbers 26,000, that the rebels are recruiting actively, and that funds are plentiful. APPEAL TO NATIONS. TO PRESERVE NEUTRALITY. (Received 16, 815 a.m.) New York, Oct. 15. A manifesto has been issued by the Chinese leader. Sun Yat Sen, appealing to all friendly nations to observe neutrality in the revolution in China and promising full observance of all treaties with foreign Powers. It declares the object of the revolution is to overthrow the corrupt Manchu regime. It is" believed Sun Yat Sen is about to depart for China although a price has been set on his head.

OVERSEA CHINESE DELIGHTED. (Received 16, 8.5 a.m.) Ottawa, Oct. 15. The flag of the Chinese Republic is flown in the Chinese quarters of Victoria. There was great enthusiasm when the news of the probable success of the revolution was published. It is known arrangnients were made by Sun Yat Sen to despatch shipments of arms from Ihe Pacific coast to China. TWO BATTALIONS REVOLT. AND JOIN THE REBELS. (Received 16, 9.10 a.m.) Berlin. Oct. 15. An unconfirmed report published here states that two battalions of modern drilled troops at Tsingtao mutinied, apparently in sympathy with Sunyatsen; also that active revolutionary propaganda is being carried on at Tsinalfu. THE TEN MILLION LOAN. (Received 16. 9.H> a.m.) Loud on. Oct. The bankers "ho "ere negotiating a ten million loan for Churn, as cabled April 17th and May Ist. have notified China of their acceptnine <7 the currency reJ>u in scheme, ami that the loan "ill bo issued within half a y ear unless force mnjeurc intervenes.