REVOLT IN CHINA.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 10302, 6 November 1911, Page 1

REVOLT IN CHINA.

PREMIERSHIP DECLINED. MASSACRE AT HANKAU. United Press Association—By i&lectric Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, November 4. Yuan-Shi-Kai lias declined the Premiership. According to some, he piefors to accept it at tli© hands of the Assembly. A "Times" Shanghai correspondent reports that half the native city of Hankau is iii flames, and a massacre of innocents has begun. Apparently both sides are in danger of reprisals from other quarters. This is changing the whole character of the revolution.

MISSIONARIES WARNED. OTTAWA, March 4. China missionaries spending holidays ' in Canada havo been warned not to return to their labours, owing to the serious state of affairs in China. PROMISED CONCESSIONS. • WESLEYAN MISSION IN DANGER, PEKIN, November 4. An edict accepts the maintenance of the dynasty, with the Emperor sacrosanct, the abolition of the influence of ! palace women and eunuchs, p-arlia-jmentary government, a responsible [Cabinet, an appointed Premier, parliamentary control of the budget, and (allowances to the Imperial household, i The rebels havo captured the Kian'guan arsenal at Shanghai. I Tho Imperialists' shells fired the '■' whole native city at Hankau. Firing '■was suspended to permit a Red Cross | steamer to resoue the wounded at the (Wesleyan niisaion hospital, but the rebel batteries at Hanyang fired, riddling the deckhouse, and the vessel was i unable to proceed,. It is feared that [tho Wesleyan mission buildings have 1 been destroyed by the flames. 1 Hanyang is now afire. _ The rebel batteries shelled the Imperial forts at the rear of the British concession. A few shells fell in the concession, damaging houses. [ Fighting is reported at Changsha, twhere the foreigners took refuge on an island. THE WOUNDED AT HANKAU. PEKIN, November 5, The wounded and the inmates of the "Wesleyan Mission at Hankau were rescued.