Marching on Pekin.

Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 1459, 10 November 1911, Page 5

Marching on Pekin.

—* —. Rebels Wearing the Capital Refuse to Discuss Terms ANOTHER REBEL VICTORY. IMPERIAL TROOPS BOUGHT. (Press Association.-By Telegrapb.Copyright). Received November 10, 12.5 a.m. Peking, Last Night. Six thousand Lanchow troops are marching en Poking. Some are at Feotgtai, saven miles from the capital, Li Yuan Hang refused Yuan Shin. Kai's oondftions and replied that it would be time to /(litems terms of peace when the Republican army was marching en Peking. The revolutionaries with the less of a hundred fcilled, captured the armoury and forts commanding Nanking. Two thousand Imperialists have seceded upon the receipt ol 300,000 taels. General Tnehliaog, upon orders from Peking, then yielded. Destruction of Hankow. DAMAGE TEN MILLIONS. 400,000 HOMELESS. . Received November 9, 11 p.m. Two-thirds of the uativa city of Hankow was destroyed by fi,e. The lowest estimate- of the damage is £10,000,000. Four hundred thonsand are destitute OOORT PREPARING TO FLEE. MURDER 01 WU. London, Yesterda v . The Chinese at Pekin declare that the Court ordered tiro Murder of Wu. Cannon have been mounted on thie walls of the Forbidden City. The Court is preparing for flight, .and bias already sent servants to Jehd. The revolutioiiwies are in possession of Fu-cliau. A MANOHU FLOT. TO MURDER ASSEMBLY MEMBERS. COURT JOINING THE MONGOLS Pekin, Yesterday. A Manjcliu plot to nuurder members of the Assembly has been discovered. Two hundred carts transported the Palace treasure from Jehol .to a secret place. The conferences with the Mongol Princes foreshadow the Court's joining the Mongols and seeking Riussian. protection. The Regent, in order to prevent troops arriving, proposed to cut the railway southward at Seengttai, but desisted 1 on Sir J. Jordan, British Ambassador, declaring thiat Britain wias entitled to operate the railway under an old agreement. Fighting is going on at Nankin. The Manclras are strongly entrenched in positions commanding the city.