CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911 — Page 619

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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