PEKING’S PERILOUS POSITION.
INHABITANTS FLEEING. THE LEGATIONS GUARDED. TROOPS LEAWE JAPAN. (United Press Association—Copyright.) PEKING, Nov. 10. A quarter of a million of .the inhabi- - ■tints-.-have fled. Ball-cartridges have : jbecn served *to . the' ’ Legation guards- $ f jThe shops are being Barricaded. * i j . British bluejackets-are guarding the -J European quarter oft- Canton. Ecrnl* guns have been landed’.. : NEW YORK, Nov. 10. The Herald’s- Tokio correspondent re'pprts that transports.- carrying three thousand troojxs have- left Yokohama, /Presumably for North--China. . SINGAPORE, Nov. 10. There is extra or d massy rejoicing amongst the Chinese in the Straits Settlements at tho success or the revoloton. GARRISON RUN. AMOK. 1000 KILLED-. (Received Nov. ll,* s io> p.m.) PEKING, Nov. 11. The Imperialists are burning Nankin and! looting private houses.Over fifty thousand Have left the city,. The Tartar garrison * was demented with-the. idea of self-preser.vaiioixc. They ran amok, killing men, women and children indiscriminately./ All students without qpeues were butchered, even people im mourning were-murdered, owing. to the- fact that their white clothes were symbols of revoliifibnary sympathies.. At leash a thousand were killed..
ROBBERS BURNINCL-FOOCMAU.
H ANTING BOMBARDED
(Received Nov. 13), L a.m.); PEKING. Nov. 12.
Yuan; Shfi Kai lias informed the Assembly that his health prevented! him assumir/m the premiership. _ Robbers; are- burning and looting rooImperialists are bombarding. Hanyang.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3373, 13 November 1911, Page 5
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215PEKING’S PERILOUS POSITION. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3373, 13 November 1911, Page 5
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