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THE REVOLUTION.
PRECAUTIONS AT PEKING.
THROUGH BEUTRE'S AGENCY.}
SLAUGHTER OF MANCHUS.
(THROUGH EBUTER'S AGENCY,], THE MEDITERRANEAN WAR
REDELA
Copy of an order of his Majesty in Conneil- concluded on March 3rd, 1911, betw on the giring affect to a further Convention which was DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATIONS, United Kingdom and Belgium amending Article 6 of the Extradition Treaty with Bel- giam of October 29th, 1901, is published in the Gautla
Mr. P. W. Valpy, one of the engineers who were employed on the survey and construction of the British section of the Canton Kowloon
holiday at Home sad proceeded to Shanghai, Mr. Valpy has come out to take up an appoint went under Mr. Collinson, the Engineer in Chief of the Canton-Hanków Railway, and was to start coustenction work at Wachang.
Railway work, however, is likely to be seriously interfered with by the civil war which has broken out in Hopah.
that the Revolutionary leaders have inform-Hallway, returned to Hongkong last work after ed the Foreign Consuls at Hankow that they will respect all treaties and loan obligations. In any case the Powers themselves will see to it that foreign in forests will not be permittel to suffer. Should, however, this internecine war be a protracted one, it will become a very serious question as to whether any Guvern- Bent in China will be able to fulfil the existing loan obligations. Unless this conflagration is promptly extinguished the outlook for the country is terribly serious. So far, Canton, usually the hot-bed of
revolt, has remained quiet. Possibly the leading spirits of the movemont have all gole north and left the southern motro, polis for future attention, for should the
attack on the rebels at Wuchang, by the combined imperial naval and military forces, drive them from the city, the probability is that the movement will travel southward through Hupeh and Honen to Kinagsi and Kwangtung. It is plain that in the ranks of the revolutionaries there must be mon of wonderful organising capacity. Had there been anything like the same capacity shown
CANTON.
{FROM OUR OWN COLLESPONDENT.]
Canton, October 14th THE POLITICAL SITUATION.
Up till the time of writing the critical stan. tien is the Tang The Provinces does not ap pear to hisve disturbed the calmn of this city. It is needful to add, however, that the officials are very ticent, and there is a strict censorship
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PEKING, October 14th.
Two battalions of the Imperial
Guards have entored Peking.
The cavalry have been ordered to patrol the streets, and all the police are armed with rifles.
The Foreign Consuls at Hankow
THE CONTRABAND QUESTION.
LONDON, October 14th. Reuter's correspondent at Constantinople wires that the Turkish Government has issued an additional list of contraband
MAVE MEN AND MONEY.
LONDON, October 14th. Reuter's special correspondent visited Wuchang yesterday and saw Manchu corpses overywhere, as many asa fifty lying outside one gate.
Troops are still hunting the Manchus, of articles, comprising cereals, preserved food- whom 800 are reported to be killed.
stuffs, bank notes, clieques and bills of ex- change.
Reuter's correspondent interviewed Li Yuan Heng and the rebel Tan Chun Ling, both of whom are most friendly disposed towards foreigners
JAATER..
Reuter's correspondent at St. Petersburg. wires that owing to apprehensions that the The Rebel army, which bitherto numbered | Porte would treat corn as contraband the
have requested the Diplomatic Body 26,000, is recruiting space, and funds are Russian Aribassador recently pointed out
to make representations to the Chì- nese Government regarding the forth- coming bombardment at Wuchang by Chinese cruisers, and ́ su
suggest that Admiral Sah should be instructed to so conduct operations as not to endanger
the Foreign Settlements. In the al-
exercised over the native Press which makes it ternative they suggest that the Gov. somowbst-difficult to know what is going on. officiala has been held and certain plans have
am given to understand that a mosting of cmnment should give ample notice. been laid down baving as their object the
There is to be a meeting of the checking of all revolutionary tendencies in this Diplomatic Corps to-day, to consider oity. The telegraphic service has also been. placed under strict censorship and no tole the matter. grams in code or cipher are accepted either from natives or foreigners Telograme in
before dispatch. It is rumoured that more
Reliable advices from Paotingfu
plentiful
to the Porte the importance of this matter to Russia, and failing to receive a definite reply, the Ambassador sent a note declaring firmly
YUAN SHIH KAI TO ESTABLISH IMPERIAL AUTHORITY. An Imperial Edict has been issued which that Russian corn would be subject neither recalle. Yuan Shih Kai and appoints him to arrest nor confiscation unless it was Viceroy of the Provinces of Hupeh and addressed to the Italian forces, and making Human, and commands him to proceed the Forte responsible for any violation of immediately to Wuchang and re-establish Russia's rights, Imperial authority.
The Porte has since allowed a Groek corn
It also orders Admiral Sa Chen Ping and steamer to pass; nevertheless the Russian
General Yin Chang to co-operate with Yuan Ambassador insists upon an official reply. Shih Kai, and it appoints Tseng--Chun- Shuen to re-establish nuthority at Szechuan,
THE INSURANCE BILL
LONDON, October 14th. At a conference of Friendly Societies held in Edinburgh it was resolved by 48 votes
-THE PORTE'S REPLY.
LATER. Router's correspondent at St. Petersburg wires that the reply of the Porte to the Bussian representations intimates that new, tral grain steamers bound for neutral ports will be allowed to pass, but cargoes consign-
FIL, EN OF RECEPTIONAL VALUE and by the Imperial and provincial anthoriting Plain words are also read by the authorities contradict the official Chinese reports to 8 to refuse to assist in administering ed to Italian war harbours, to military an
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regarding the departure of the sixth the Government Insurance Scheme unless thorities or contractors will be stopped. Briny, division. Only 500 soldiers have left.
A censorship of the Press has been established in Peking.
VIEWS IN JAPAN,
the Government conceded the minimum demands of the Societies for an amendment of the Bill.
Mr. Lloyd George has declined to con- sider the suggestion of the Associated Chambers of Commerce not to proceed with the Bill until the Autumn Session in order to allow maturer consideration.
A.S. WATSON & CO.s to have been complacently assumed that as soon as a rising was attempted, the troops would unite as one man and rally to the support of the Government. Events, however, have not shaped themselves that way, and seeing that there has boen so large colleges are under considerable government being displayed here in the develop. fact that all parties had agreed to the
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matters would never have come to the troops are to be sent to this city and that cortain presont pasa, I view, for instance, strategic points on the boundaries of the pro pt tho admission of
the Viceroy vinces have been conopied by Imperial soldiers. that he had been kept informed of the It seems strange to the average foreigner development of a revolutionary plot; in that so great a political upheaval in the Central view also of the discontent which was daily Provinces should cause so little interest hora. being manifested among the troops, one
The fact is that the Chiness, or at least the would have expected that at least adequate the evouts occurring in one province have great balk of them, "think parochially," and measures would have been taken to safe but very little interest for the man of the next. guard the arsenal, if not the mint. But it For all this, however, the authorities will needi
to be especially vary just now, for everyone who is well acquainted with Canton lows that every other man is a revolutionist at heart, and some of them very rabid ones at that. The student body is particularly anti-dynastic and it is no worder that theas attending schools and a defection from the Army in Hupeh one spionage. All to whom I have spoken on the can but wonder whether any greater the policy of the Hana reliance can be adsrod tre shall soon learn, person. I think it is evident
VUV in asparting the proports a that the foreigner has little to fear from the bona fide revolutionist. The danger, especially in this district, is that any uprising releases, from what little control is at present exercised, the hordes of somistarving veolies, ball characters and wastrols that hang around every Chinese city, and whom every disturbance gathers together, giving the opportunity for plander, humanity in and around Canton just now, and There is a very large number of this class of there is no doubt that should a rising of any magnitude take place, their presence would constitute a grave menace to foreign lives and property.
The name of Mr. F. R. J. Adams has boen added to the list of the Colony's authorised architects.
Under a regulation tunde by the Governor in Council, no dog brought from Shanghai will be permitted to land in the Colony for a period of
vix months from October 5th, 1911.
At the Magistracy on Saturday Mr. Hazeland flood the junkman who was arrested with 120 ounces of cocutas in his possession $2,00, the alternative being twelve months' imprisonment His Majesty the King has been pleased Approve the appointment of the Hon. Mr. C H. Roas to be an unofficial member of the Legislativo `Council, vice Mr. H. Keswick resigned.
THE VOLUNTEER 'NOVEMENT, two days ago, the occasion being the inangara.. The District City of Shun Tak was en fête tion of a corps of volunteers. The money for the An I. M. Customs notification states that the support of this corps has been subscribed by the import of saltpatro into China is regulated by leading merchants, and much enthusiasm has been the rules governing the import of arms and shown. At-7am. the nowly raised corps, prened
The return
Toxro, Uctober 15th. Amid the commercial anxiety and depression, the keenest interest is
uation, and the
ugut of the possibility of Japan's assistance being sought should the rebels succeed in defeating the Peking forces is not
considered remote.
There is little confidence here in the capacity of the Imperial generals
is living in Kobe
The Rebel lester, Kang Yu Wei,
THROUGH BEUTER'S AGENCY.]
REVOLUTIONISTS AND FOREIGNERS.
Lovnox, October 14th.
that eight train-loads of troops have left for Renter's correspondent at Peking wires
Paoting...
from a mort reliable source that General
A REBEL GENERAL, K Reuter's correspondent at Peking has it Li Quan Heng leads the Hupeh mutineers
In is very apparent that the revelation ammunition, as saltpetre can be manufactured ed by a brass band, marched to the Parade Ground, which has broken out in the province of into nitric acid, an ingredient of high explosives where they were met by certain oficials, who Hupeh is destined to spread, and to be a big A Chinese was charged at the Magistracy on made suitable speeches, after which tea and caken event in the history of China, comparable Saturday with having obtained a cheque book reserved. The ceremonies ended by the corps with the great Taiping rebellion of nearly on January 12th, 1905, with intent to defrauding photographed. It may be remembered Foreign Cousals at Hankow that they will The Revolutionists have informed the ifty years ago. Doubtless it was due to the the International Banking Corporation. The strenuous resistance to the formation of these respect all treaties andƑean obligations.
that some time ago the government offered disloyalty of the soldiers that the revolution. case was remanded, and bail was fixed in the citizen corps, but it would now appear that the ary leaders were able to commence theirs of $1,000.
determination of the people has at length worn campaign by sacking the arsenal at Hanyang
down the Government's opposition.
Foreign bluejackets, under the command and the Mint at Wuchang, whereby they the Bale of Food and Drugs Ordinance town the natives of Fatshan bare petitioned for
of samples examined under
of Japanese Admiral Kawashima, are guard. FATHHAN NEWS. acquired a fighting fund of upwards of two for the quarter ended 30th September is the strongthening of the police farce. In zo-
Owing to the prevalence of robbery in the ing the foreign concessions. million taols, and deprived the imperial that of four samples of whisky examined all offle als went to the town and held a moding published in the Government Gazette. It shows spouse the Tants of Police and certain other troops of probably the largest reserves of were found genuine, while of a similar number with severst prominent persons to consider arms and ammunition that the Govern of samples of brandy, one was found to be ment of an increased forse. The following
and means to bring about the establish- ment possess in North China. This adulteratod. rebel coup must in any case seriously
an example of the kind of crime that has led to handicap the operations of the loyal FX. Visira-Riro, President of the Com. offer ble wares for sale. Seeing that the only
Telegrams have been exchanged between Mr. hawking jess-sticks, went to a certain bonse to ASSISTANCE FOR REVOLUTIONARY this petition being sent in, A man, ostensibly troops, who are
probably none too mittee appointed by the Republican Centres, nip several articles of clothing and darted into well supplied with ammunition. General (Hongkong) Dr. Affonso Costa and Liga Bethestreet. The hsi-foug, being aroused by the econy sats were women, he rushed in, sustched.
CAUSE. YIN CHANG has under his command the publicana Portaguste de Hongkong and the cries of the women, ebased the thief, and although finest troops in the Empire, and the triumph President of the Portuguese Hepublic. The he was not caught, yet he dropped the stolen of the imperial cause depends entirely upon President thanked the local republican centres
goods in the street. their loyalty. General YIN CHANG's mili-for their greetings to the Government and the tary training in Europe makes him a
Nation. man eminently fitted to lead in the The International Committee of the Young field the troops whose training on foreign the sum of P230,000 for the construction of two watchmaker. Honour was the mainspring of Men's Christian Association has offered to give lipas he has directed as Minister of War. buildings in Manila for the Filipino young men, is erstence, and work over regulated histo-morrow to celebrate the Revolutionary Our Tokyo correspondent, however, says en condition that the friends of the work to the God and the lose of his neighbour were always
Dr. Sun Yat Sen has ordered parades for that in Military circles in Japan little.con- Philippines contribute at least P60,000 for the key that wound him up He lived happy GERMAN WARSHIPS PROCEED TO
time. His works were good. The four fidence is felt in the capacity of the generale furnishing and equipping the buildings until the Great Clockmaker of the Universe of the Imperial Chinese Army. The rebels Upon being adrised of this liberal offer. thought at to sever the chain of his days at the can hardly be in any better caso in that Theodore Tangoo offered to give P20,000 on respect: they are necessarily depending on condition that the remaining P40,000 beraired the generalship of officers trained in the by local subscription.
WATCHMAKER'S EPITAPH.
LONDON, October 15th, Reuter's correspondent at San Francisco wires that the Chinese in the United States An eld walchmaker who died recently in Paris have already collected $200,000 on behalf of gave lustructions in his will that the following the Revolutionaries. Here lies horisontally So-and-So, in his lifetime Inscription should be cut on his tombstone:
of
were able to write down eighty-seven years. age of " His heirs filled in the blank, and
successES.
SCENE OF REBELLION.
LONDON, October 15th. Mr. Lloyd George, - in an address at Whitfield's Tabernacle, appended for support for the Insurance Bill. He emphasised the
Principle of the Bill, and continued, “But heard, and the only one way to triumph is soon the clamour of rested interests will be
by tenaciously 3ghting them, and that job have undertaken." (Cliseys.)
LATER.
Mr. Lloyd George's speech at Whitfielda has been published verbatim.-
He spoke for two hours, and the audience was tumultuously enthusiastic, especially with his declaration, "The Bill is going through this year. I will fight it through
or fall."
He taunted Mr. Balfour with inciting the Trade Unions and Friendly Societies to kill the Bill which he was afraid to oppose in a straightforward manner himself, and said. that no Minister before had ever asked his
pponents rejected it, preferring to whisper Fponents help to prepare a Bill. But his
calumnies about a measure which would do
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AEROPLANES TO BE USED IN TRIPOLI.
Four aeroplanes, with Italian officers and pilots, are being conveyed to Tripoli.
It is intended to use them for warfare if the occasion arises, and they will be utilised to drop bombs into the enemy's encamp-
menta.
EXPEDITION FOR THE INTERIOR.
that General Caneva-is organising an ex- Beuter's correspondent at Tripoli states pedition to proceed into the interior.
"It will start next week, and carry supplies for a month.....
THE CONDITIONS OF PEACE, Italian official quarters emphasise the fact Reuter's correspondent at Milan says that
that if Turkey desires a quick and dignified... peace she must be reconciled to Tripoli being entirely lost.
continue in Asia Minor the Italian Alcet-will
If, however, outrages against Italiane. carry the war into other Turkish Provinem,
effect.
Italy bus notified the Powers to this
BULGARIA NEUTRAL Router'a correspondent at Sofia wires that a more optimistle feeling prevails as the re- sult of an interview between Bulgarian Min-
sters and Foreign Diplomats, and Bulgaria will not at present take military measITTES,
"KAISERI" TRANSFORMED INTO HOSPITAL SHIP.
LONDON, October 15th. Router's correspondent at Port Said wires that the Turkish transport Kaiseri, the
since the abolition of the Corn Laws. He more to assuage human misery than any
was humbly anxious to help the advent of a new earth where the health of the multitude long stay of which in the harbour the Italian was more precious in the eyes of the law Consul protested against as a breach of the than the wealth of the few,
neutrality of the Canal, has landed her troops at Kantara, whence they will proceed to Palestine via Clarish escorted by Egyptian Coast Guards.
THE TURF.
Park Plate, which was won by Abered by two lengths, Sweeper the Second beating White Star by a length and a half for second place.
LONDON, October 14th. There were tas starters for the Middle
The betting was: 7 to 1 against Absurd; 2 to 1 against Sweeper II. and 6 to 4 against White Star
AUSTRALIAN CRICKET ELEVEN.
Clem Hill has been appointed captain,
LONDON, October 14th.
and Iredale, Hill and McAlister have been appointed selectors of the Australian cricket
oleren.
THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR
LITERATURE.
The worthy watchmaker's works (the Telegraph in Chinese waters have been ordered to the famous German writer, will be awarded the
LONDON, October 15th. The two German cruisers and the gunboat It is announced that Masterlinck, the
Nobel prize for literature.
adds) were indeed excellent
scane of the rebellion.
hospital ship, and is proceeding through the Red Sea,
The Kaiseri has been transformed into a
TURKISH PARLIAMENT OPENED.
LATER, Beuter's correspondent at Constantinople reports the opening of the Turkish Parlia- ment yesterday afternoon.
The speech from the Throne dealt mainly stops had been taken by the Government with the action of Italy, and stated that
towards securing the mediation of the Powers. Meanwhile the Government would continue to re recouran to measures ta defend its rights and legitimate interests.
The speech was listened to in profound silence, and there was no applause.
cessful issue of the crisis, and prom
The Sultan was surrounded by the Eldest Princes and appeared to be affected....
Two Ulenia offered prayers for the suc malediction upon Italy.