CHINESE SITUATION.

North Otago Times, Volume CV, Issue 13932, 14 July 1917, Page 6

CHINESE SITUATION.

REPUBLICAN ULTIMATUM TO IMPERIALISTS. : » .Jfl (Per Cable—Press Association—Co]|B; (Australian and N.Z. Cablo AssocSP|n) PEKING, July 12. The Republican generals liavo sent an ultimatum to tho Imperial troops to evacuate the Palace and the Forbidden City- immediately, otherwise tli.o positions will be stormed. The Republicans caught the Imperial Ministers of War and Finance disguised trying to escape in a train frpm Peking, j

REPUBLICANS INVEST PEKIN. SERIOUS TROUBLE FOR IMPERIALISTS. F""i (Australian and N.Z. Cable Astfociatitm).' Received July 13, at 7.10 p.m. TIENTSIN, July 13. Sixty' thousand republican troops, with seventy heavy ■guns, are round Miii, thus rendering Chang llsuu's escape impossible. The Imperialists are entrenching themselves in tho Forbidden City.