THE CHINESE RISING
BRISBANE, May 23
A Chimes© merchant who has returned from China states that the recent uprising was an attempt by two or three thousand youths .and young men to overthrow the Manchu rule in Canton and the provinces. They were well armed, but lacked organisation, and had since been quelled. C4reat surveillance was being exercised over queueless persons, because 70 per cent, of the revolutionaries were without that appendage.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2985, 31 May 1911, Page 27
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72THE CHINESE RISING Otago Witness, Issue 2985, 31 May 1911, Page 27
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