THE REVOLUTION IN CHINA

Southland Times, Issue 16888, 13 November 1911, Page 5

THE REVOLUTION IN CHINA

PEKIN INHABITANTS TAKE PLIGHT DEMENTED NANKIN GARRISON. BUTCHERS RIGHT AND LEFT. [Dy Telegraph.—Prcai Association.—Copyright. ] PEKIN, Nov. 10. A quarter of a million inhabitants have fled. Ball cartridges have been served to the legation guards. Shops keepers are beginning to barricade. British bluejackets are guarding European quarters in Canton. Four guns have been landed. BURNING NANKIN. GHASTLY WORK BY TARTARS. PEKIN, Nov. 11. Received November 12, 5.5 p.m. The Imperialists are burning Nankin and looting private houses. Over 50,000 people have left the city. The Tartar garrison became demented. With the idea of self-preservation, they ran amok, killing'men, women, and children indiscriminately. All students without queues were butchered, and even people in mourning were murdered owing to the fact that their white clothes were symbols of revolutionary sympathies. At least a thousand people were killed. REJOICING IN STRAITS SETTLEMENTS. SINGAPORE, Nov. 10. There is extraordinary rejoicing amongst Chinese in the Straits Settlements at the success of the revolution. THE AUSTRALIAN WARSHIPS. NOT SIGNIFICANT. MELBOURNE, Nov. 11. Mr Fisher states that the visit of the warships to China is a special one, the result of a rearrangement, and has nothing to do with the revolution. Ships might be sent from China to take their places. The matter was one whereon a public announcement, could not be made. TROOPS FROM JAPAN. PRESUMABLY FOR CHINA. / NEW YORK, Nov. 10. The “Herald’s” Toklo correspondent reports that transports carrying three thousand troops have left Yokohama, presumably for North China. YUAN’S REFUSAL OF PREMIERSHIP BURNING AND BOMBARDMENT. PEKIN> Nov. 12. Received November 13, 1 a.m. ;■ Yuan-Shi-Kai has Informed the Assembly that the state of his health prevented him from assuming the Premiership. Robbers are, burning and looting Foochau. The Imperialists are bombarding Hanying. A NEW ZEALAND RECRUIT. (Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Nov. 11.Joseph Lowe, an ex-missionary to the Chinese at Greymouth, left Wellington yesterday for China. He speaks English well and is a British subject. He is sent by the Chinese to fight for the Republicans. The New Zealand Chinese subscribed the funds for Lowe, who Is full of zeal. Interviewed, Lowe said that New Zealand Chinese were practically all revolutionaries and In deadly earnest.