SPREADING RAPIDLY.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3348, 14 October 1911, Page 7

SPREADING RAPIDLY.

PEKIN UNDER MARTIAL LAAV. (Received Oct. 13, 9.25 p.m.) PEKIN, Oct. 13. The revolution is the most formidable since the Taiping rebellion. It is part of a concerned movement to take the whole Empire, and create a republic, under Sunyantsen. The trouble is partly over misgovernment over taxation. The flood distress paved the way. The revolutionists occupied Hankow unopposed. Random shelling took place between revolutionists forts at Nuchang. Loyal cruisers on the river ceased after British and Japanese protests were made and the concessions were endangered. Foreigners in Hankow, Nuchang, and Hanyang who were summoned to foreign concessions in Hankow report that they were well treated at the hands of revolutionaries.

The Pekin-Hankow railway has been torn up for a stretch of twenty miles, and bridges have been destroyed. Between ten and hfteen thousand troops mutinied at Hupeh. Thirty modern guns were captured at Nuchang. General Changpiao was not killed, but took refuge on a gunboat. The Government is stupified, and disaffection exists amongst troops. Admiral Sah’s squadron has left Shangai for Hankow. Semi-martial law prevails in Pekin. The residences of princes, high officials and the city gates are guarded.