Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-13
Election Of Noted Exile as First
President Is Planned.
Government AWakes and Makes
Hurried Preparations.
Orders issued for Assembling Of
WarshIps with Land Forces.


Hankow, Oct 12.-The revolution
which has been hanging over China
for months past. and Of which the ris-
ing in the province of Sze-Chuen WAS
only small part. has begun In ear
nest. 1t is concerted movement TO
take the empire and declare a repub-
lie. The noted exiled revolutionist.
DR.. Sun Vat Sen, leader of the anti
MancAu party, II the plans do not mis-
carry, is to be elected president. He
was the delegate OF the revolutionary
party to the United States in 1910 and
is believed, during that time. to have
made arrangements for financing the
movement.
Sun Yu, brother OF DR.. Sun Vat
Sen, who Is now in Hankow, has been
elected president of The Provincial As
sembly and Tang Hua Lung. the re-
firing president OF the Assembly, and
a noted scholar, has been elected gov
ernor Of Hu-Pehu. The whole Assem-
bly, has seeded from the Imperial
government. The rebels are well or
ganized and financially strong They
have eonfseated the local treasures
and banks, and are issuing their own
paper money. redeeming the govern
ment notes with Ills, as the foreign
banks are refusing the government
notes.
| The revolutionartes have captured
| WI Chang, the native section OF Han
kow and Han Yang, all adjoining
cities in HUI Peh province. Chang
Shu, capital of Human, is reported to
have risen in revolt. and Marking.
capital of the province of Kiang-Su Is
on the verge OF rising, several pub
lie buildings having been destroyed.
Thousands of soldiers are daily
joining the mutiny In Hu-Peh. Many
Manchus have been killed and the ter
rihed people are fleeing from the cities
into the country. carrying their be-
lodgings. The prisons have been
opened and the criminals liberated.
There has been lighting In the streets.
but the most stringent orders have
been issued that the lives of foreigners
and their property shall be respected.
An American expedition which was
dispatched from Hankow TO WI
Chang for the purpose of aiding the
missionaries there. returned here to-
day with all the missionaries. with the
exception of Miss r. A. Kemp. the
members of the Roman Catholic Mis-
sion, including the Sisters and the
London Mission, who declined to de-
part. There was brief exchange OF
shots today between the WI Chang
forts and a Chinese cruiser. The flr-
Ing ceased after the British and
Japanese officials had protested that 1t
endangered the foreign concession.
The losses in the nghting thus far ag-
gregate several hundred. but practically
ala the dead are Manchus. The slogan
of the movement which is guided oy
shrewd and temperate leaders, Is evident
~ Down with the Manchus."
Thus far there has been no indication
of any luminosity against foreigners on
the part OF the revolutionists.
The capture of Han-Yang, which 10
town OF perhaps 100000. just north OF
Hankow, has delivered into the hands OF
! the revolutionists, the arsenal ana tho
Important Han-Yang iron works. Tho
revolutionlsts had no trouble In MAN.
Yang, Overwhelmingly outnumberins the
local troops General Chang Piao es-
capped by flight and the members OF the
local government were dispersed. 4ne
popularity of the revolutionary move-
ment all along the river and In the In.
terror is indicated by apparently anthem
tic reports that several nearby cities
have fallen Where resistance was Of
fered the rebel forces. the towns appear
to have been put to the torch.
The Methodist missionaries In Wu
Chang are known TO be safe. An OK.
pedtionary force Is now engaged in gath
ering up the Americans and rescuins
them wherever they are hemmed In by
the natives.