CHINESE REVOLUTION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 53, 17 October 1911, Page 5

CHINESE REVOLUTION.

REBELS VERY BUSY

BOMBARDMENT BY WARSHIPS CONTEMPLATED.

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.; Pekin, October 16.

Telegraphic communication with Changsha is restored. Changsha is reported safe. The Consuls at Hankow arc sending European women and children to Shanghai.

Three thousand Honan troops, encamped at North Hankow, joined the revolutionaries.

The rebel arsenal at Hanyang is working double shifts, turning out twenty-live thousand rounds of ammunition daily. A hundred and forty field pieces are ready. Two thousand revolutionaries have occupied Kiating. Four hundred rebels from Kiating are marching in the direction of Yachow.

The revolutionaries consistently protect the churches, and are issuing passports to missionaries. Hankow is now isolated. The telegraphs are in the hands of the revolutionaries. Trains are stopped. The Chinese warships will issue a warning before bombarding tlio town. Foreigners will then leave. The foreign concessions in the British Consular archives have already been transferred to a gunboat. Tile Prefect of Suifu. fearing forcible opening of the prison, released the prisoners. A FINANCIAL PANIC, London, October 10. “The Times” Pekin correspondent reports that though an edict curtly orders Yuanshikai to Wuchang, and does not attempt any reparation for his dismissal, ho acco Pts in a grave emergency the hardest post in the Empire. He is apparently confident of tho loyalty of Ins northern army, which is ins'creation, thirteen transport trains left Pekin and Paotmgtu on Saturday and Sunday, eleven leave to-day, and ten ou Tuesday. Altogether twenty thousand combatants will concentrate at tho third station northwards oi Hankow. 'the General Staff is confident the rebellion will soon bo suppressed. They declare that the Hankow station is still in possession of loyal troops. A financial panic occurred at Peiun on Saturday. There were runs on tho Government oanks and the native cash-shops, but the disturbance was only, temporary. WAR OFFICE WANTS MONEY. London, October 16. The Chinese War Olfico’s overtures to lour foreign banking groups for a short loan to provide tor the payment of the northern troops, met with objections, one of which was that if financing was begun it must bo continued, although the future was uncertain. Secondly, tho aim of securing loans would obviously induce the revolutionaries to believe that foreigners were contributing to suppress tho revolution; and thirdly, tho Throne should be compelled to disgorge its hoarded millions. BRITISH MISSIONARIES. SCARCITY OF DOLLARS. RISE IN PRICE OF RICE. (Received-17, ,10.10 a.m.) ! 1 Pekin, October 16. In view of possible severe fighting, the Consul has ordered British missionaries to leave Wuchang, Hankow, Hanyan, and Kiyangtsi. Owing to a scarcity of dollars and the continuous runs on the native banks at Pekin, the Minister of Finance is issuing a million taels to relievo the financial stringency. Rice has risen 20 per cent. OPPOSED TO THE MANCHUS.

Wo have been told that the rising is an anti-Manchu one. A “Chinese Student,” writing in the “Westminster Review” some months ago, set out in detail the aims and objects of tho three parties which are now striving each in its own way for the regeneration of the Chinese Empire. For the sake of convenience, the parties are classified ns Constitutional Monarchists, Constitutional Democrats, and Revolutionary Republicans. All three parties have this in common: they want political freedom, they want individual freedom, and judicial independence. In two other respects they also agree. They support the anti-Manchu campaign and tho policy of “China for the Chinese.” The writer of the article recognises that both terms require explanation, “for it is due to the misinterpretation of their moaning that the world today views us with suspicion, if not with anxiety. Let it l)e said once for all,” he writes, “that the anti-Man-chu campaign is a campaign directed against the existing political inequality, and not a mission of racial hatred. The Manchus occupy far more important positions than their number or civilisation entitles them to, and this we will not tolerate any longer, but we bear them no ill-will. There is no language question to require a settlement, for they have long forgotten their own and now speak ours. Neither is their any religious difficulty to come between us, for they worship the same God or gods as we. do. Let bygones be bygones; wo know the value of national freedom which wo fight for, and we have no intention to deprive a people of theirs. It is indeed no less in their interest than in ours that we start the campaign—misnamed as anti-Manchu. Those who visited the quarters of the Manchurian garrison, recently abolished, can unfold a sad tale of those ill-clothed, ill-fed, idle, and dirty creatures that were forbidden to pursue any industry except to become soldiers, living on a Government pension that ' was insufficient for a month’s meal out of the twelve, bnder an enlightened policy, will they not prosper far better P The newlyorganised party is almost exclusively composed of Chinese, who are, as a whole, superior to them in number, in intelligence, and in education. Can they possibly make stand against us, even if they wish?”