STARTLING CORRESPONDENCE.

Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12824, 16 October 1911, Page 5

STARTLING CORRESPONDENCE.

A CAREFULLY-PLANNED

REVOLUTION

BIG ARMY DIVISIONS READY TO

REBEL

" A FOREST T)F DRY WOOD."

HAD OUTLOOK FOR THE THRONE

Received October, 15, 5.5 p.m. ■• ' LONDON, October 14

- Tho "Daily Chronicle"' has published ])r. Sun Yatscn's letters to an AngloAmerican' group of,bankers when he was visiting England in January last. The correspondence reveals that the rising has .been carefully engineered. Dr Sun Yatsen appealed for half a million sterling to assist the movement, and declared that the r \yhole of Southern. China was ready rebel. ■■

Tho correspondence shows that a Chinese hank, three rice mills in Bangkok, several merchants in Singapore, and three mine-owners in the Malay States, whoso property aggregates two million sterling, offered the American capitalists to guarantees' Sun Yatsen's loan.

While the capitalists were making inquiries, Dr. Sun Yatsen went on a secret mission, and afterwards reported that various divisions of a modern-drill-. ccV army in the South Yahgtso were strongly in favour of revolution. An understanding had been reached whereby the comet (about whose appearance tho Chinese are vory superstitious) would be over when the revolution gained, a "footing.- The loyalty of seven divisions in Pekin. which Yuenshikai created, had greatly diminished since Yuenshikai's degradation.

Dr. Sun Yatsen added that another division in Manchuria, commanded by a revolutionary general, could be .depended upon to operate against \Pekin. Many officers and sailors of the navy were also revolutionists. , The report continued by stating that the recent intervention of the. Chinese populace in the Makao disnnto between China and Portugal showed that the wholo South Was-ready for a general uprising. The present position resembled a forest of dry wood, and required ono spark, .which- was a half a million loan. The leaders were not men of financial standing, but had; ability, .equal to any in the world. Dr. Sun Yatsen offered the financiers the right oj appointing nominees to control the finances of the revolution, and said the loan would be repaid many times over when a city, like Canton, was captured.

The "Times'"Pek in correspondent says that the sympathies of an im-inens-o mass of the educated Chinese in I'ekin are with the revolutionaries, and there is- little sympathy for the corrupt and effete Manchu dynasty. The outlook for the Throne is ominous.