FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
MEXICO. Press Association—By Tel.—Copyright, NEW YORK, May 22. It is semi-officially announced that President Diaz will resign on Wednesday. The rebels are still active. • The Chinese were attacked at Torison by insurgents and 225 Chinese were killed. THE CANTON RIOTS. BRISBANE, May 23. A Chinese merchant who lias returned to this city, states *hat the recent uprising wa"s an attempt by two or three tliotisand youths and young men, to overthrow Manchu rule an tho Canton provinces. They were well armed, but lacked organisation. The rising has since been qnelled and there is great surveillance of queueless persons because seventy per cent, of tho revolutionaries were without the "pigtail." THE ARAB REVOLT. ADDEN, May 22.
The Yemen rebels captured and fortified a post at Shaar, and took IGO prisoners, after a siege of six months.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14450, 24 May 1911, Page 5
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