FIRE AND SLAUGHTER.
BURNING OF A CITY.
CHINESE TROOPS RUN AMOK.
A TERRIBLE BUTCHERY.
By Telegraph.—Press Association.— Copyright, - • (Received November 12, 5.5 p.m.)
Pekin, November 11. The Imperialists are burning Nanking, capital of Kiang-su, and looting private houses.. Over 50,000 persons have left the city. The Tartar garrison became demented with the idea of self-preser-vation and ran amok, killing men, women, and children indiscriminately. All the students without queues were butchered. Even the people in mourning were murdered, owing to the fact that their white clothes were the symbols of revolutionary sympathy. Robbers are burning and looting Foo-chau. The Imperial troops are .bombarding Han-king. Singapore, November 11. There are extraordinary rejoicings among the Chinese in the Straits Settlements at the success of the revolution in China. YUAN-SHI-KAI'S HEALTH. CANNOT BE PREMIER. (Received November 13, 1 a.m.) Pekin, November 12. Yuan-shi-kai has been informed that the state of his health will prevent him assuming the Premiership.' THE PANIC IN PEKIN. FLIGHT OF RESIDENTS. Pekin, November 11. . A-quarter of a million inhabitants have fled from Pekin. Ball cartridges have been served out to the Legation Guards, and the occupiers of shops are beginning to barricade them. British bluejackets are guarding the European quarters in Canton, and four guns have been landed to assist. New York, November 11. The Tokio correspondent of the New York Herald reports that transports carrying 3000 troops have left Yokohama, presumably -for North China.
BRITISH SHIPS FOR CHINA. NOTHING TO DO WITH RISING. . ' Melbourne, November 12. The Federal Prime Minister (Mr. Fisher) states that the visit to China of the warships of the Australasian Squadron is a special one, the result of a rearrangement, and' has nothing to do with the revolution. Ships, he said, might be sent from China to take their places. The matter was one in regard to which a public announcement could not be made. CHINESE IN NEW ZEALAND. "ALL REVOLUTIONARIES." [BY TSLEGRAPH — ASSOCIATION.] Wellington, Saturday. Joseph Loue, an ex-missionary to the Chinese at Greymouth, left Wellington yesterday for China. He speaks English well, and is a naturalised British subject. Ho is being sent homo by Chinese of the Dominion to fight for the Republicans. New Zealand Chinese subscribed funds for Loue, who is full of zeal. In an interview Lone said that the New Zealand Chinese were practically all revolutionaries, and were in deadly earnest.
CAUSE OF THE RISING. LIMITED MONARCHY DESIRED. The recently-appointed Chinese Consul to New Zealand, Mr. Chow Si Lanchu, is at present visiting Christchurch, and later is to come to Auckland to inquire into the condition of his countrymen on the gum and gold fields of this province. In an interview with a Christchurch reporter, the Consul said that there was no doubt that the present trouble in China was the direct result of the demand that had been made for some time for constitutional government. The idea really was to improve the present system rather than to bring about very violent changes. The leaders of the rebellious movement did not wish to introduce a republican form of government, but merely to bring about constitutional changes, which would still leave the Emperor on the throne, but which would largely restrict his powers and would prevent the members of the Imperial family from holding the high offices of State. The _ proposal, in fact, was to apply to the Chinese nation a constitution moulded on that of the British Empire, and establishing a limited monarchy. When the trouble was over, and the nation settled down to peace again, said Mr. Chow Si Lanchu, the Manchus would probably unite with the other sections, and all would push on along the road of progress, on the lines adopted by Western nations. The edict issued by the Emperor some time ago, permitting intermarriage between the Manchus and the other races of China, would foster that spirit. All the leaders of the rebellion had adopted Western ideas. Many of them were educated in foreign countries and were well acquainted with foreign ideas in regard to government, education, encouragement of industries, and so on. As a matter of fact, at the present time there were more Chinese students in foreign countries than there had ever been, and most of them would return to their native land in order to give their fellow-countrymen the benefit of their studies and experience.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14836, 13 November 1911, Page 7
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