CHINESE CIVIL WAR.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 64, 30 October 1911, Page 5

CHINESE CIVIL WAR.

MILITARY DICTATORSHIP

REORGANISING THE FORCES

v ßy Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.!

Pekin, October 28. An edict has been issued giving Yuan-shih-kai the military dictatorship, recalling General \in Chang, witii the rank of Imperial Minister. Yuan-shih-kai is reorganising the forces under his own nominees as divisional commanders. The first army will bo under General Fan-Gugo-Chang. The second army is mobilising under General Suan-Chijui, and a third will subsequently be organised. The Dowager Empress contributed a million taels to the expenses of the campaign, assisting to replace the recaptured Treasury. The Assembly memorialised the Throne, requesting that a Parliament be formed, and the Cabinet reconstituted, Manchu nobles to bo excluded. The (memorial recommends the pardon of the present rebels. I Several members of the Assembly demanded the decapitation of Cheng-Suan-Hnai, and an attempt was made to assassinate him. The British Minister hastily convened a meeting of the representatives of the nations who participated in tho recent loans. They vigorously protested at the barbarity. Ching fled to Tientsin, escorted by an American force. Imperial troops have recaptured Chengtu. < An engagement was fought in a rainstorm, the Imperial troops showing great valour. They captured large quantities of ammunition. Flushed with victory, they then occupied tho outskirts of tho City of Hankow r . Imperial reinforcements are hurrying up to protect tho railway. GENERAL YIN CHANG.

(Received 30, 8.5 a.m.) Pekin, October 29

Router reports that gunboats supported General Yin Chang’s First Army, which captured two Republican positions and advanced within five hundred yards of the strong entrenchments westward of Hankau race•oursc. Operations were temporarily suspended and thirty Republican guns were captured. The Imperialists had ] officers and 37 men killed and 150 wounded. The Republicans had 400 casualties, including the commander of the artillery.