CHINESE CIVIL WAR.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 89, 28 November 1911, Page 5

CHINESE CIVIL WAR.

YUAN CANNOT FORM A CABIN El

HE AY ANTS TO GO HOME

'By Electric Telegraph.—Copyrigi t.) (United Press Association.) Pekin, November 27.

Yuan-Sbib-Kai lias failed to form a Cabinet, and only a few minor posts were filled.

He was only prevented from returning homo by tlie knowledge that his departure would create a panic and precipitate an outbreak of the Manchus, who are in a desperate state. The revolutionaries are bombarding Nanking, and 800 Imperialists have been killed.

Rebel reinforcements reached Nanking from Shanghai, and include twelve women, beaded by the widow of a soldier killed at Nanking in the mutiny of 1908.

TO REINFORCE JAPANESE GARRISONS.

(Received 28, 9.-15 a.m.) Tokio, November 27

Japan is sending a battalion of infantry and a machine gun detachment to reinforce he Tientsin and Pekin garrisons.

IMPERIA LIST JUBiLA TION

(Received 23, 9.45 a.m.) Pekin, November 27

Imperial flags are flying throughout Pekin to show the people’s joy at the -establishment of the constitution. The Regent, on behalf of the Emperor, swore an oath to the shades of liis imperial ancestors to uphold the constitution and to organise a Parliament excluding nobles. The Imperialists captured two forts near Hanyang.