YUAN-SHI-KAI DECLINES OFFICE.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLV, Issue 259, 7 November 1911, Page 5

YUAN-SHI-KAI DECLINES OFFICE.

.MASSACRE OF THE INNOCENTS.

PEJLOT, Nov. 4. * lYuan-shi-kaui has, declined tlie 'Premiership. Accordipg to some tuithorities lie prefers #o accept it iit th© hands of tho Assembly. \ The Times's Shan^ghai correspond-' «nti reports that half -fihe native city, of Hankow is in flames, and a mas-' saer© of the inaoceasts has begun, anid apparently both, sides in danger? •of reprisoJs from other quarters. Thid iti changing for a wihile'the ciharacteij of \ the rcvoJution. , }