REVOLUTION" IN CENTRAL CHINA. A SERIOUS MENACE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue 9309, 6 March 1907, Page 6

REVOLUTION" IN CENTRAL CHINA. A SERIOUS MENACE.

VICTORIA (8.C.), February 3.

The steamer Tartar, which arrived tonight, brought advices that the jrevolutaon in Central China is a serious memaoe. Kwang Chang is threatened with a formidable uprising. The Kwang Tung rebel leader, whol escaped from the Chinese Legation an London some yeans ago in a sensational manner, is living in Tokio, Japan, and is organising the revolution, which, he dm an interview, is expected too accomplish the fall of the present Manelm dynasty in Pekin within three years. The mebels hold all the moon/tain fortresses on the borders of Hunan and Kinagsi, and all attempts of the Imperial troops *o dModge them have failed. In oonßequenoe of the rebellion, Chinese authorities at Shanghai ; have adopted vigorous measures to prevent the import of arms and ammunition. "Agents 01 the revolutioniisfs have been s&afc to the United States ■and elsewhere to secretly purchase warlike material," cays a dispatch to the Asashi, of Tokio, "and collusion has been found to exast between the agents of the Tebels and (traders to import arms under the guise of *rade goods. To date 20J000 Imperial troops, with cavalry and artillery, have been sent against the rebels, but failed to accomplish, amytbieg;" Advices from foreigners who visited the district say it is doubtful whether the revolution can be suppressed even should all the troops at the disposition of the Government be sent. The leader of the revolutionists is Kuoag Chuntai, from Siang Tang, and placards issued by him state the anebelliioai is aimed to overthrow the Manchu dynasty. Signs of unrest are reported from many places in China, andi dispatches to the Asaslu from Mukden state an outbreak against dynasty is extreme in Manchuria, where a battalion of Chinese troops has murdered its officers. At Pekin exceptjonal precautions are being taken, the police and palace guards being doubled, as warnings have been sent by Viceroy Chang Chili Tung and Tuan Fang that large numbers of Secret Society men from the Yangtse Valley are flocking to Pekin.