CHINESE CIVIL WAR.
TROOPS MUTINY
IMPERIAL PRISONERS ASSASSINATED. REBELS BEHEAD THEIR LEADERS, Pekin, November 3. A third edict instructs the Assembly to draft a constitution. The Assembly insists on the suppression of all Manchu prerogatives, the abolition of eunuchs, and the addition of queues. An official despatch from Shih-Kai-fan announces that a regiment of diansi troops, proceeding to assist the imperialists at Shan-Si, mutinied. After killing a brigadier-general they bombarded a Manchu city, and massacred a thousand Manchus, including the Governor and his family. Advices from Hankau state that the rebels beheaded the commander of Eriday’s battle, suspecting treachery. Other officers suffered the same bate. A foreigner reports that ho saw the rebels kill twenty Imperialist prismers, and a thousand wounded redds. A battery on the Wou-Cbang side shelled the Russian steamer Poltava. POLICE MUTINY AT SHANGHAI. REBELS IN POSSESSION OF THE NATIVE CITY. (Received 4, 10.40 a.m.) Pekin, November 3. In consequence of a police mutiny it Shanghai the revolutionaries are ■ n possession of the native city, and bare notified the Consuls that a provisional government has been established.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 69, 4 November 1911, Page 5
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