THE WAR.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 54, 18 October 1911, Page 5

THE WAR.

TURKISH ’TROOPS CONCENTRATING. By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. United Press Association. Constantinople, October li. Each of three army corps at Salonika, Monastir, and Ufjknb have boon increased by twenty-live thousand, making a total available force in Western Macedonia of a hundred and fifty thousand. Many of these are assembling along the Greek frontier at Vanina, Elassona, Katerina, Platamony, and Karabcw.ona. It is announced that Hassan Talinsim Pasha will be Mahmoud Shcvkqt’e successor at Salonika. Enver Pasha, Commander of the local division, has been suddenly placed on the retired list, indicatin' ga lack of harmony between the Committee of Union and the officers of the Salonika Corps.

SURRENDER OF TURKISH OFFICERS.

Tripoli, October 17

One hundred and fifty Turkish officers have surrendered here, and many others in Aral) attire are mixing 'with the population of the town, awaiting a chance to proceed to Constantinople.

CHINESE REVOLUTION.

WHAT CHINESE PAPERS SAY

IVP AN ESE AT THE BOTTOM OF TROUBLE.

Pekin, October 17

The troubles at Szechuan continue. The Government affects to regard the situation in tlio West as more serious than at Wuchang, owing to the impossibility of rapid transport. The semi-official press at Pekin is endeavouring to prove that the Japanese are at the bottom of the revolution at Wuchang.

THE FINANCIAL POSITION

Pekin, October 17

The Government has advanced the banks an abundance of silver to meet present requirements. On the other hand it is feared that China will have difficulty in meeting the November instalment of the Boxer indemnity, as Wuchang is the chief collecting centre of the indemnity payments from a large portion of the Empire. The Viceroy of Nanking has disarmed tlie 9th Division of the Modern Army, and is supplying its place with provincial troops. This is the second instance of disarmament within two years, and explains the Throne’s anxl- - concerning the trustworthiness of modern drilled troops. Six transports have been chartered at Shanghai to convey troops to Yangtze. Some are from Mukden. It is officially reported that YaianI'.hihkai has accepted a Vice-Royalty. Router’s correspondent says that the acceptance has caused an optimistic feeling. It is officially believed that his mere name will terrify the reyolutionits.

An edict has been issued for the distribution of ftce to the poor, and opens .the Pekin granaries for the sale of cheap grain. Ninety marines are reinforcing the American Legation Guard. Yenchang’s headquarters are seventy miles northward of Hankow. London, October 17.

“Tho Times” hopes that Young China will not imitate the Young Turks in establishing anything like a Committee of Union and Progress.

THE LATEST,

(Received 18, 11.10 a in ) Pekin, October 17

.Admiral Sachengping has reached Hankow in a gunboat, and has assured tho Consuls that mere vronlcl no no danger to concessions when hostilities commenced.

Four thousand northern Imperial troops, well equipped, are encamped near Hankow awaiting reinforcements. Twr thousand rebels with artillery crossed the Yangtse .River to oppose the Imperial troops’ advance. . Foreign warships are flocking to Hankow, A Renter telegram states, that the rcvolutionits oiler a thousand taels for tho capture of the ex- \ I.jsv rv Joichang. It is reported that Mancivu won en at Pekin are changing into Chinese dress.

Chunchuneso are extremely r.?tivein North Mauehuria, and .Russian troops have been ordered to repress them

Berlin, October 17

Official advices st,atc that the landing parties from the German warships Leipzig, Tiger and 1 atcrland, assisted by volunteers recruited from the German residents of Hankow, are engaged in street lighting with a Chinese mol).