CHINESE REVOLUTION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 51, 14 October 1911, Page 5

CHINESE REVOLUTION.

MOST FORM Ii )A BLE R 1 SI NG. A REPUBLIC AIMED AT. (By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright.) (United Press Association.J Pekin, October 13. The present is the most formidable rising since the Taiping rebellion. It is part of a concentrated movement to take the whole Empire and create a republic under Sunyantson. Misgovernment, over-taxation, Hood and distress paved the way for the rebellion. The revolutionists occupied Hankow unopposed. I lie random shelling between the revolutionary forts at Wuchang and the loyal cruisers on the river ceased after British and Japanese protests. 'Tiio giving of recent concessions endangered the safety of foreigners at Hai ikow, Wuchang and Hayang. Hankow reports that foreigners arc well treated at the hands of the revolutionaries. Chansha has risen, and the Viceroy's yameu and the Tartar General’s residence were destroyed. The Pekin-Hankow railway has boon torn up for a stretch of twenty miles, and tuo bridges destroyed. Between ten and fifteen thousand troops mutined at Hupeh. Thirty modern guns were captured at Wuchang. An Imperial edict cashiers the Viceroy, but orders him to retake Wuchang under pain of severe punishment. The report that the mint, witn two million taels and Government silver, was captured at Hanyang and Cliangpiao is incorrect. The officials took refuge on a gunboat. The Government is stupefied at the disaffection among the troops. Admiral Sab’s squadron lias left Shanghai for Hankow'. Semi-martial law obtains at Pekin, and the residences of princes and high officials and the city gates are guarded. SUCCESS OF REBELS. (Received 14, 9.35 a.m.) Pekin, October 13. - Cabinet admits that the garrisons at Paotingfu, I iontsin, and even Pekin are honeycombed with revolutionaries. The rebels captured Teliang and Yochanfu, and isolated Chungkung, which is beyond the reach of foreign gunboats. Anxiety is felt for the safety of fiiends of the foreign mission. The rebels are strongly entrenched at Wuchang and Hanang. Guns arc mounted, and they have ample ammunition for arsenal. The revolution aims at making Dr. Snngateseno’s brother (Sunyu) President of Hupeh Provincial Assembly which has already disavowed the Pekin Government. Tanghuateng, a noted scholar, is to be Viceroy of Hupeh. General Tiguanheng, the capable commander of the Twenty-first Mixed Brigade, is leading the Hupeh mutineers. Batches of Government troops are arriving at Hankow 7 . The revolutionaries arc endeavouring to persuade them to rebel. Prisoners in the Hankow gaols have been released to fight. Bluejackets, under the Japanese Adnt’ ,- al Ivawashima, are guarding, the Consulates. An‘edict has been issued offering a pardon to the mutineers who were coerced into joining, if they express repentance. Chang-pio has been cashiered.