YUAN-SHI-KAI'S DIFFICULTIES.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13275, 28 November 1911, Page 2

YUAN-SHI-KAI'S DIFFICULTIES.

FAILURE TO FORM A CABINET.

BOMBARDMENT OF NANKING

(Received Nov 28, 0.5 a.m.) Pekin, Nov 27. 1 uaii-sJn-kai i'ajlcd to form a Cahniot, only a few minor posts being filled. Ho was only prevented from returning homo by the knowledge that his departure would create a panic and precipitate an outbreak of the Manchus, who are in a desperate state.

The revolutionaries are bombardii)!Nanking, 800 Imperialists having been killed. Rebel reinforcements have reached Nanking from Shanghai. They include twelve women, headed by the widow of a soldier who was killed at Nanking during the mutiny in 1908.