CHINESE CIVIL WAR.
REGENT’S ABDICATION ASKED FOR. Pekin, November 14. An edict appoints Yuan-Shih-Kai to command all troops in the vicinity of Pekin. Wa-Ting-Fang, of Shanghai, telegraphed to the Regent, urging bis abdication, and pointing out that apait from republicanism there is no way to avoid the continued sacrifice of lives or to preserve peace. He promises the Regent a sufficiency to enable him to live in style compatible with his birth. Outlawry continues, and ('’anion robbers are terrorising the inhabitants. Revolutionaries, through a misunderstanding, slew one hundred Lnanese revolutionary troops at Fat-Shan Theatre. Fifteen hundred Yunnan soldiers have escaped from Waichow, and are pillaging and burning villages, and murdering women and children. They are now surrounded by the rebels, and fierce fighting is proceeding.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 79, 15 November 1911, Page 5
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