THE REVOLT IN CHINA.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 12586, 17 October 1911, Page 5

THE REVOLT IN CHINA.

AN INCREASING FORCE

A THREATENED BOMBARDMENT

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

PEKING, October 16

Telegraphic communication with Changsha has been restored, and Chang.slia is reported to be safe. The Consuls at Hankow are sending the European women and children to Shanghai Three thousand Honan troops encamped at ■NCft'th Hankow have joined tho revolutionaries.

The rebel arsenal at Hanyong is working double shifts and turning out twentyfjve thousand :• "rounds of ammunition daily. .J-'.Ojie hundred and forty field pieces dtfa- ready '■'■' '■"■ : Two l .thousand revolutionaries occupied Kiaiity'g, -.-.: i ,arrd. ' four hundred rebels f^m-VKiatung- T are marching m tjie dir6T6tioiii> d^f : Yachow. The revolutionaries' tia^e' consistently protected the churcWesj jawl'are; issuing passports to the missi<Sn;arieß.\ v :|'-'« i 'Hankow;' i?;<now : isolated and the tele;graph:4ine&<ni.e v in the hands of the revolutionai^es;. TrainsNare also stopped. The Chinese warships will issue a warning before beg'innn'ig the bombardment of the townj foreigners must then leave the -foreign.^concessions. The Brrtifch Consular archives have already been transferred to the gunboat. The Prefect o'f>Suifu, fearing the forcible opening of thUjpVison, has released the prisoners \W"'"

The TiShes Peking correspondent reports that though the edict curtly orders General Yuanshikai to Wuchang, and does not attempt any reparation for his dismissal, he accepts, m the grave emergency, the hardest post m the Empire, apparently confident m the loyalty of Ms northern army, which is his creation. Thirteen transport trains left Peking and Pao Ting Fu on Saturday and Sunday, and. eleven to-day and ten on Tuesday.

Altogether twenty thousand combatants will concentrate at the third station northwards of Hankow. • ■ '

The Imperial staff is. confident that the rebellion will soon be suppressed, and declares that the Hankow station is still m pos&ession of loyal troopsi • ■■''.-. A financial panic occurred at 'Peking on Saturday, and there were runs on the Government banks and native cash shops,' but the disturbance was' only temporary. The War Office's overtures with four foreign banking groups for a short loan to provide for the payment of the northern troops, met with objections; firstly, that if financing were begun it must be continued, although the future is uncertain, and secondly, that the aim m se: curing loans is obviously to induce the revolutionaries to believe that the for> eigners are contributing to suppress the revolution; thirdly, that the Throne should be compelled to disgorge its hoarded millions.