NEWS FROM CORRESPONDENTS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVI, Issue XLVI, 21 October 1911, Page 5

NEWS FROM CORRESPONDENTS.

THE RECENT .FIGfiTING:

REBELS REPORTED AS WINNING

IVARIOUS ACCOUNTS.

(Received Oct. 21, 9.30 a .m ) . LONDON, FridayJ.'he Times'" Pefoin, states that the Government has- modified »ts arranffamienlfcs : 'a;nd : will - liiow send against the rebels .jffcan Manchuria and Shantung only a few thousand.-'-troops. AN EDITOR THREATENED. FEELING iiui-ONG -SYDNEY CHINESE.* (Received 10.30 a.mi.) :SYI»WEY, Saturday. ' Editor Tung -W-ah, of the "Chinese Tianes," Sydney, has received a number of letters threatt;nin;r personal violence for the expression of anti-revolutionary doctrines in his ipapei-. ." 1± & reported to the,,police that a tlrreat is made that if he hoists the diragoiv flag at the Sunday festival of the birthday of Goni'ucius it AvilL be ptiMed down with violence.

This is attributed to' a fueling tlialj the* two divisions .entraining for Hankow are sufficient to deal witfi th~j situation. Soma think that Yuansruhkai I»iU as-' eu-me command of the troops. The "Daily Mail's" Pekm correspond©ftS .states that it .is reported that the loyalists werA repulsed in North-Weet Haakovv with losses amounting to 700. Th» "GhrorficleV' Shanghai represent tative says that it is; Sported that second battle io.f tew hours w#s fought, chiefly at a station below the concession, the Hankow rebels beirig" The correspondent proceeds toi show that Liyuanheng,- te,v subtle strategy, started the revolution', s&i«e4 th<i* Viceroy Juicheng, and. using his seal/ despatched a message to the manager of fthe Hanyang arsenal urging hiim to come to ihG Viceroy's add. Whilst the men were ab*esit the revolutiotnaries seized the arsefi&L atkl the manager afterwards retained; his post tinder the revolutionaries. The "'Standard's" Shanghai correspondent declares that the Imperials at Hankow havei l-oturned northwards. It is believed to be a strategic movement to join the Imperials arriving by train. Reuters Hankow corresjSoiident reports the rebels as winning. ~-■-,