CHINESE CIVIL WAR.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 72, 8 November 1911, Page 5

CHINESE CIVIL WAR.

R EIJ El jS I i ETA K E 11A NKO W

HE AY Y CASUALTIES

(By Electric Telegraph.—-Copying) t.) (United .Press Association.) London, November 7. The “Telegraph’s” Pekin correspondent reports tho Government despatches admit that the rebels recaptured Hankow, the lire of the Hanyang and Wuchang forts being unfaceablo. The casualties on both, sides were very heavy. Pekin, November 7. A Shanghai telegram states that , Amoy is in the hands of the revoluj tionai ies, and the town is in a state ,of anarchy. The telegram adds that all towns upon the railway line from Shanghai to Chinhiang are also in the hands of the rebels. The revoluntionary troops are receiving twelve taels a month, compared with the Imperials’ four and a half taels. A Rangoon telegram says that the troops at Tongyueii, on the border of Burma!), mutinied and looted the Treasury, and killed General Cliing, the Taotai, and the Taotai’s women folk. Talifn, Yungchang and Yunnanfu were also captured, and all the officials murdered. A GOVERNOR ASSASSINATED. REPORTED FALL OF PEKIN. (Received 8, 8.5 a.in.) Pekin, November 7. Munchu soldiers assassinated Wu, tho new Governor of Shansi. It is reported at Shanghai and Singapore that Pekin has fallen. Reuter’s Pekin correspondent to-day docs not mention the matter. UNCONFIRME D REPORTS. Now York, November 7. The flight of the Chinese Emperor and the fall of Pekin, as reported in telegrams to tho San Francisco Chinese papers, are unconfirmed. (Received 8,- 9.5 a.m.) Pekin, November 7. Wu was killed while asleep in his tent, by assassins, who alleged that lie was a revolutionary. Wu, who was a brilliant young officer, was educated in Japan, and sympathised with the reforms. Hb was sent to Shansi to persuade the revolutionaries that their demands for essential reforms would be conceded.

Cbaug Sbao Tseng proceeds on a similar mission to Yangtszc. Tiie Governor of Suchau lias joined the rebels, who arc in possession of the southern half of Kiangsu.

Two hundred and fifty British troops from Hongkong have been sent io Shanghai, and 200 Russian troops from Tientsin.

The Regent’s brother, Tsachsnn, who was acting as Minister of the Navy, has disappeared, and is supposed to have fled. Li-Yuan-Hung insists that the Imperial family will he pensioned and proceed to Johol. He proposes a Republican Union, the States of which will be as nearly as possible mutually independent. YOUNG CHINA LEAGUE. (Received 8, 9.10 a.m.) Sydney, November 8. A branch of the Young China League lias been formed in Sydney, with tiie object of assisting iff the establishment of a Republic in China.