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REG 19 JUN II
Memorandum on the Revolutionary outbreak in Canton on
April 27th, 1911.
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Revolutionary scares have been so epidemic in
Canton of late that when the actual outbreak occurred
on the 27th April, the authorities in the city were
taken by surprise.
According to Chinese official information, at
six o'clock on Thursday afternoon about 40 men succeeded
in passing into the Governor General's Yamen and made
straight for the central hall where they supposed the
Governor General to be, throwing bombs and firing as
All of them had discarded the queue and
they went.
wore a distinguishing badge in the shape of a white
cloth wrapped about the head or round their arms or
waists. Clerks and writers fled at their approach
but a staunch defence was made by the Yamen Guard and
although the revolutionaries were joined by numerous
comrades from the city they wer finally driven out and
pursued