CHINESE REVOLUTION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 55, 19 October 1911, Page 5

CHINESE REVOLUTION.

ORIGIN OF THE TROUBLE

Pekin, October IS. With a view to 'making a Hank advance teg thousand troops aio entraining at Isiuiniua for i'aku, and ten thousand Have noon snipped to Uangtsze. Tne • -Daily Mail’s” Hankow- correspondent reports tiiat tno revolutionists are carefully fortifying the positions and enrolling optiiusiastic volunteers. ■ '■ ' '

Numbers of the Northern troops, on arrival, are joining those at Yuan Sliihkai’s disposal, it is reported that the Royalist troops are disaffected and unreliable. Thousands of noncombatants are quitting Hankow. The British and Japanese admirals are defending the foreign concessions. Thirteen- foreign'warships are at thorn disposal. ' Troops are going south in excellent spirits. ■ ' i The slaughter of Manchus at Wuchang and Hankow has ceased. Tne Republicans have ordered their followers to spare all who submit to the new Government. A man causing a disturbance was pursued and killed in the British concession in Hankow. Orders were at once issued that nobody must enter the concession. Parties from other worships besides olio German participated in the fight with the Hankow moh. Despatches are being sent wirelessly from Hankow to Tsingtau by means of the German warships’ apparatus. The revolutionary force surrounding Kiukiang demand surrender. The fall of Nanking is reported imminent.

The French Legation has learned that the Viceroy of Nanking is missrng. Correspondents at Szechuan ascribe the origin of the unrest to the Pekin Government’s decision concerning the Szechuan raihvay and the international loan. The latter concerns the Ecliangkweifu line, a section of tho Main Trunk raihvay, whereon the Chinese claim to have already spent four million taels.

Railway officials, and students organised a spirited protest, and a deputation was unwillingly sent to Pekin, and, despite its organisers’’ exhortations, riots, pillage and incendiarism occurred in many localities. Peoplb are everyw-here resolved not to pay taxes unless the local company is empow-ored to continue to build tho Szechuan railway., The situation subsequently became worse. THE POWERS AND CHINA. (Received 19. 8.5 a.m.) London, October 18. “The Times” reports that the German semi-official press maintains that the activity of the Poivers must be confined to rigidly protecting their respective subjects and trade in China. AN ENGAGEMENT.

Pekin, October 18. Two thousand Imperials, supported by a cruiser, are engaging ten thousand rebels near Hankow. Foreign warships are landing men. THE LATEST. (Received 19, 9.40 a.m.) Pekin, October 18. Admiral Sachengping ordered. the cruisers to land men to join the two thousand Imperial troops under General Changpiao. Tile rebels, observing the movement, gave battle. Hie cruisers kept up a desultory shelling, but the rebels drove the Imperialists back until their ammunition was exhausted. They then retired to Wuchang. The rebels, on the previous night, tried to capture Changpiao’s camp.