REVOLT IN CHINA
»/ Telegraph—Press Association— CopyrifM LONDON, January 12"The Times" correspondent at Pe~ kin says the situation has been obscured by the censorship. The Government is moving large bodies of troops to strategic points with the object of isolating Yunnan and preventing the movement spreading to the adjoining provinces. Serious developments are possible. Tai Ao, who is a strong character, and is greatly influential in Yun-nan, where he has an army of 30,000 men and ample supplies and arms, has been promised substantial financial support. The mountains render him secure from attack in winter. Therefore Yuan Shih Kai is attempting to isolate him and negotiate for his surrender. Meanwhile the provinces of Sze-chuan, Kwan-tung, and Rwei-chow are notoriously opposed to Kuan. Kwan-tung is garrisoned by Yun-nanese troopsThe Government has a quarter of a million soldiers, reputedly loyal, in the Yang-tse region eagerly awaiting Imperial largesse. The arrival of considerable forces at Shanghai has restored confidence, and trade is brisk, but the monarchical proposal has revivified the revolutionary element. The future is dependent on developments in the south.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLI, Issue 9247, 14 January 1916, Page 6
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