CHINESE CIVIL WAR.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 74, 10 November 1911, Page 5

CHINESE CIVIL WAR.

THE HANKOW FIRE

DAMAGE £10,000,000

■1.00,000 PEOPLE HOMELESS

Fokin,. Nov ember .9. Two-thirds of Hankow” is-destroyed. •The fire, at the lowest estimate, has caused damage to tjie. (extent. of £10,000,000. Four hundred thousand, people are destitute. ' . ;y 7 i‘> j -

, JREASJJRY NOTES,., • ‘ ASSISTANCE TO* REBELS. Sydney]November 9. Mr. Johnson, editor of the Chinese .‘■‘Herald ” states that Sun-Yot r Sen lias issued a(million ptnjnds worth of treasUry-niches,’ ant j fihht this course contributed largely to the success of tiie insurgents, enabling them to secure almost uiili;Mted-,xu:rus.._aud,.am-inunition.

The patriots ,'avlio are buying arms will be repaid if the rebels are successful. If not, they will lose, but it is for the good of the cause, and they will risk their lives if necessary.

P3&IN REBELS[ ; CAPTURE,,NANKING

_ Pekin, ,-November 9

Six thousand La nohow troops are marching on Pekin. > Some arc at Fent-Gtai, seven miles from the Capital. . - ■ LUO I ‘ ■ •■ j Li-Yuan-Heng refused Yuan-Shih-Kai’s conditions, and replied that it was time to discuss terms when the Republican army- was marching into Pekin. : Tlie revolutionaries., ! wit;h the loss or 100 killed, captured the armoury and forts commanding Nan-King. Two thousand Imperialists seceded upon receipt of 3000 taels. General Tueli-Ling, upon orders from jlekin, then yielded.