FIGHTING FOR A REPUBLIC.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 12584, 14 October 1911, Page 5

FIGHTING FOR A REPUBLIC.

(Press Assn.— By Telegraph.— Copyright.)

PEKING, October 13. The revolution is the most formidable sine 3 the Taiping rebellion. It is part of a concerted movement to take the whole Empire, and create a Republic under Sunyantsen. The trouble is partly over misgovernmeht over taxation. The flood distress paved the way. The revolutionists occupied Hankow unopposed. % Random shelling took place between revolutionists forts at Nuchang. Loyal cruisers on the river ceased after British, and Japanese protests were made and the concessions were endangered. Foreigners m Hankow, Nuchang and Hanyang who were summoned to foreign concessions m Hankow, report that they were well treated at the hands of revolutionaries. The Poking-Hanl«»w railway has been torn up for a str« tch ' of 20 miles, and bridges have been destroyed. Between ten and fifteen . thousand troops mutinied at HupehThirty modern guns .were captured at Nuchang. General Changpiao was not killed, but took refuge on a gunboat. The Government is stupefied,, and disaffection exists amongst troops. , Admiral Sah's squadron has left Shanghai for Hankow. Semi-martial law prevails m Peking. The residences of princes, high officials and the city gates are guarded. /Received October 14, 11 a.m.) PEKING, October 13. The Cabinet admits that the garrisons at Naotingfu, Tientsin, and even Peking are honeycombed with revolutionaries. The rebels captured Icliang- and Gochareff, and have isolated Chungk'ung, which is beyond the reach of \ foreign gunboats. . ' r . ,.' , Anxiety is felt ■- for the of friends of the foreign missions. The rebels are sfcro'ngly 'entrenched ;it Wuchang and Hanyang. The guns .are remounted, and the repels have ample ammunition from the ars*enal. • The revolutionaries are making Dr Sunyatsen's brother president of., the Hupeh Provincial Assembly, which ; has already disavowed the Peking. Government. Tangfuateng, a noted- scholar, is to be Viceroy of Hupeh. -■ • : , General Tiquanhang, • a", capable* commander, is leading the Hupeh hiutineers. Batches of Government troops are arriving at Hankow. Revolutionaries are endeavoring to persuade .'. them to rebel; The prisoners m Hankow gaols will ;lje released. ".,'/, Foreign ' bluejackets, "under the Japanese Admiral Kamashima, are .guarding the Consulates. An edict has. been issued' offering a pardon to mutineers who were coerced into joining if they express jtheir repentance. Changpiao has been; cashiered. . The autumn manoeuvre* of. thirty thousand troops at Kaipaing have been cancelled. The sixth d. vision has "yen ordered to Fenghai.

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