RISING IN CHINA

Otago Witness, Issue 3100, 13 August 1913, Page 23

RISING IN CHINA

HON GKONG, August 5, Ihe Cantonese rebels fired on a Chinese steamer, killing three and wounding five passengers and disabling the vessel.

ihe Cantonese troops at Intong mutinied. They killed the commander, and annulled the proclamation of independence. Ihe rebels at Tutuk have fled to Hongkong. PEKING, August 7. Hr Sun at Sen has fled to Formosa aboard a Japanese steamer, j August 11. 1 '1 he revolt cost the Government £2,000,000. The money wag chiefly expended in bribing rebel deserters. ! Four Government detachments are advancing on the Woosung forts, which are short of ammunition. The war junks at Woosung attempted to desert. One escaped, but the rebels burnt the rest. TOKIO, August 10. Dr Sun Vat Sen and Huang-hsing have secretly landed in Japan despite the Premier announcing that Chinese refugees would not be allowed to come into the country. LONDON, August 8. The Times's correspondent in Peking reports that characteristic delay is bein'* shown in finishing the southern rebellion.

It is believed that serious opposition to the Government is over, and that a new Cabinet will shortly be nominated, composed wholly of Yuan Shih-Kai’s officials.