CHINESE CIVIL WAR.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 84, 22 November 1911, Page 6

CHINESE CIVIL WAR.

A TOWN IN RUINS. NOT ANXIOUS TO ACCEPT. (Received 22, 9.15 a.m.) London, iNovembcr 21. The Baptise Missionary Society cables that Tai Yenfu is in ruins, but the missions are safe. The “Evening Standard” states that tlie leader of the revolution cabled to Sun-i'at-Scn, offering him the premiership, but Sun-5 at-Seu is not anxious to accept the position unless the country demands it. A CITY DESTROYED. (Received 22, 10.15 a.m.) Sydney, November 22. The “Daily Telegraph's” special correspondent, describing the burning of the native city of Hankau, under direction of the Chinese Imperial Generals, says where once a splendid city with a population of half a million, there is now a. heap of smoiildcring ruins. With live shell, lyddite, hud kerosene; the troops swept through the streets destroying. Burning shells from the batteries, posted by rebels at Wuchang, had no influence in checking the terrible and wanton holocaust. How much damage was done and how many lives were lost will never be known.