SITUATION IN CHINA

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 213, 7 March 1912, Page 5

SITUATION IN CHINA

MUTINEERS LENIENTLY TREATED. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. , Pekin, March 5. The Government has 'pardoned a thousand Fengtai mutineers and provided them with a special train to proceed to Lukochow. The train was so filled with equipment arid loot that the mutineers were forced to walk. FRENCH AND JAPANESE TROOPS DESPATCHED. REPUBLICANS INFLICT SEVERE ' DEFEAT. NUMEROUS EXECUTIONS. Received 7, 12.45 a.m. Pekin, March 6. The Republican delegates assert that the Republic was inaugurated at Nanking, but the Cabinet was formed at Pekin. Yuan-Shih-Kai proceeds to Nanking in September. The British and American tobacco stores at Pactingfu, to the value of £IO,OOO, and all Japanese premises, were looted. The Japanese took refuge in the mission premises. French and Japanese troops were despatched to bring their people to Pekin. The Japanese are protecting all foreigners in Shanhaikwan. Several parties of mutineers who returned' to Pekin have been arrested and executed. Two thousand troops revolted and looted Kiukang. The Republicans are triumphing at Weihaiwei and driving the recalcitrants to the south-west, killing a thousand.

CONSPIRACY AT BANGKOK. Received 7, 12.45 a.m. Pekin, March 6. Rcuter's Bangkok correspondent reports a revolutionary conspiracy at Bangkok. The army and navy officers are implicated, and there are many arrests. RINGLEADERS BANISHED. Received 7, 12.45 a.m. Amsterdam, March 6. Advices show that the Government has decided to banish 100 ringleaders of the recent Chinese disturbances to Java.