Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-11-06
REPORTED CAPTURE
OF c|TY OF PEK|N.
Ii Yuan Hung, Commander in Chief
Refuses Yuan Shi Kai's Propo-
sails for Settlement of War
WANT EMPEROR DEPOSED.
Choice of Premier to be From Among
the Rerslutionists-Dead Piled in
streets-I5O,OOO Said to Have Been
kiIled-Chinese Republic Proclaimed.

StreetS-l5O,UUU Saln 10 nave Sttii
KiIled-Chinese Republic Proclaimed.
Vancouver B.C. Nov, a-=-Itis re-
ported the rebels have captured Pekin.
This dispatch. which came to the
Tae Hon Yat Bo, was duplicated later
to all the Chinese revolutionary news
papers on the Pacific coast.
The dispatch said that, after desper-
ate street fighting between rebels and
imperialists in Pekin, the Manchu
princes and their supporters fled from
the capital.
The last words OF the cable Sere:
''All is now PEACEFUL" which Chi
nese declare means that the revolution
lists have taken the capital.
Pekin, Nov. 6.-Gen. Ii Yuan
Hung, commander in chief Of the
rebels in southern China, has fatty
refused Yuan shi Kais proposals
for a settlement of the revolution
lists grievances against the throne,
That he would do so has been feared
from the first, but definite news OF
his decision, received here in a mes
sage from Yuan Shi Kai today, nev-
ertheless came to the imperial court
as violent shock.
The only terms upon which Gen
Ii will make peace, Yuan states. are
the following:
Deposition and degradation of the
emperor.
Formal recognition of the recently
proclaimed republic Of Han"
Election by popular vote of a head
of the republican government to sue.
ceed himself as self-proclaimed pro-
visional president.
Choice of a premier from among
the revolutionists.
The imperial government is pow.
erless even III Pekin, the capita! OF
the empire itself. Anarchy reigns and
foreign interference in China's af-
fairs is considered imminent.
Fugitives from the stricken city
say at the time they left. there were
many places where the streets were
piled two or three deep with corpses
from one side to the other, that where
the hand-to-hand fighting between
rebels and imperialists was fiercest
the dead lie literally in drifts and
that hundreds, cut off by fires in ev-
cry direction, perished in the flames.
Since the rebellion, it is estimated
here that at least 10000 men, wo-
men and children have been killed in
battles, massacres and fires through
out the empire. 1t is the general
opinion here that the fighting is far
from being ended, that tremendous
slaughter of Manchus is inevitable
sooner or later, and that the death
roll may well pass the million mark
before peace is finally restored.
Negotiations are understood to be
already in progress for combination
Of forces between the rebels under
General Ii and those Of the provinces
of Kiang Su, Che Kiang and Flu Kien
which have also just declared their
independence of imperial rule. Rev.
olutionists here are enthusiastically
indorsing Gen. Lis refusal to make
peace on any terms other than the
enlperor's deposition and the estab-
lishment of a republic.
Yuan Shi Kai is generally .consid-
cred to be dependent for his safety
upon the revolutionist commander
good will. The rank and file of the
rebels, among whom he ventured to
discuss terms. undoubtedly regard
him as a traitor to the cause Of free
dom and would probably make short
"OTh Ol MN DuI LOl Luc OpllllOI lue
general is said to hold that it would
be disgrace to himself and his fol-
lowers if an accredited emissary from
the enemy should come to harm while
at his headquarters under an implied,
though not formal. safe conduct.
Shanghai, Nov. 6.-Dr. Wu Ting
Fang, formerly Chinese minister to
the United States, has accepted the
post of Secretary Of Foreign Affairs
under the provisional government. OF
which Gen. Ii Yum Hung is head.
Wen Tsung Yao, less widely known
to Americans than ex-minister WI
but one of the most prominent men
in the empire, has been offered a
place as Wu's first assistant.
Admiral Winslow, commanding the
British naval force in Chinese wa.
ters, has advised the English govern
ment to send troops to China. He