THE POSITION AT PEKIN
AN AUTHORISED MURDER. [I’RF.SS ASSOCIATION —C.aCYTIK.HT.I (Reeiivi d 9. 5.5 a.m.) London. Nov. 8. The Chinese .at Pekin declare the Court ordf red the murder of V\ n. Cannon have been mounted on the walls of the forbidden city.
The Court is preparing for Hight, ami has already sent thc.r servant.; to Jfhol. The revolutionaries were in possession of Fuehau and Taichnu on t he sth inst. THIv COURT SEEKS RUSSIAN PROTEC TION. (Received 9. 12 noon.) Pekin, Nov. 8. A Mancini plot to miirde'r nic'iibers of the Assembly has been discovered. Two hundred carts transported the palace treasure from Jthc-l to .a secret place. Conference with Mongol princes foreshadow the Courts joining the Mongols and seeking Russian protection. The Regent in order to prevent the troops from arriving proposed to cut the railway southward at Seengtai. but desisted, on Sir J- Jordan. British Ambassador, declaring Britain was entitled tv operate the railway under the old agreement.
Fighting is going on at Nankin. The Manel-.us .are strongly entrenched in n position commanding the ci tv.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 275, 9 November 1911, Page 5
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