Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-21
Missionaries Warned of an
Outbreak Near Capital.
BAD NEWS is SUPPRESSED
Government Believed to Have Been
Advised of Reverses.
LEGATIONS ARE ALARMED
General Feeling at Peking That
Crisis Is Approaching-Discord
in the Government.

PEKING, October 21.-There was little
in the news received at the capital to-
day to reassure the government or re-
lieve the general feeling of uneasiness.
The American missionaries in this
province, Chill, have been warned by
students that there will be a revolu-
tionary outbreak near Peking tomorrow.
Considerable credence is attached to the
warning, as similar advance information
reached the missionaries at Wuchang
prior to the rising there.
Evidently trouble is brewing at Tient-
sin, and a telegram from there contains
the ominous statement that the yemen
of the viceroy at Tsinan, the capital of
Shantung province, has been burned.
In Hands of Rebels.
Consular reports from Ichang, which
has been isolated for some days, confirm
earlier rumors that the city is in the pos
session of the revolutionists. Thus far
there has been no disturbance in Ichang,
with the exception of an agitation on the
part of 5000 men employed on rail-
way construction, who demand payment
of their wages in silver, which cannot be
had.
The national assembly will convene here
tomorrow. AS there is a sentiment in
this body unfriendly to the throne. the
approaching deliberations are looked for
ward to with some anxiety.
In view Of the possible spread of the re-
bellion, the foreign legations are taking
the necessary military and commissary
precautions in this city and at Tientsin
for the protection Of the legations and the
they represent.
Serious News Suppressed.
There is no doubt that more serious
news than that of the defeat of the gov
eminent troops by the revolutionists at
Hankow Wednesday has been received
at Peking. but not published. There are
persistent rumors that Admiral Sab Chen
Pings flagship was sunk or captured.
1t is reported that the rebels are now
holding Hwangchow, at the narrowest
point Of the Yangtze river, and that they
are also in possession of Ichang and the
railway near kwangSui.
The result of Wednesdays fighting has
caused a general feeling at the foreign
legations that the situation is now criti-
cal
The diplomats met yesterday and con-
sidered China's financial obligations. The
government has requested postpone
ment of the payment OF the Boxer In
demnity installments and Is eagerly seek
ing new loan.
4 belated telegram from Chengsha, un-
der date of last Wednesday, states that
the fall of the city is imminent. The
rebels are reported to have posted heavy
artillery in a strong position in the hills
north of Canton.
Dissension in Government.
Yuan Shi Kai, the newly appointed
viceroy of the provinces of HUI Peh and
HUI Nan, and Yin Tchang, the minister
of war. are at loggerheads. The former
is dissatisfied with the preparations made
by the minister Of war, whom he char
acterizes as ''bOastful and incapable" 1t
is understood here that Yuan Shi Kai Is
now considering whether he will take SUI
preme command of the army along the
Yangtze river or concentrate his effort
OH the recapture of Wuchang. Should
he finally decide not to carry out either
one of these proposals it would be a
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