The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-13
outbursts In China Are Bu, Curtain
Ralsers for Larger Ones
Which Are TO
Follow.
PUBLIC BUILDINGS DOWN
British and Japanese Officials Stop
One Battle Between the Rebels
and Chinese
Cruiser.

HANKow, Oct. 1s.-rhe revolu-
ton which has been hanging over
China for months, and of which the
rising In the Province of SEE Chuen
was only small part, has begun IN
earnest, II is a concerted movement
TO take the empire and declare re-
public
The exiled revolutionist, Dr. Sum
Yat Sen, leader OF the anti-Manchui
party. Is to be elected president If the
plans do not miscarry, He was the
delegate of the revolutionary party to
the United States in 1910, and 1t is
believed during that tour he made ar
rangements for financing the move
ment
Sun Yu. brother of DR.. Sun Vat
Sen, who is in Hankow. has been
elected president of the province as
sembly. and Taag Hua Lung. the re-
firing president ct the assembly, has
been elected governor of Hu-Peh.
The whole assembly has seeded
from the imperial government The
4 rebels are well organized and hnanc-
tally strong. They have confscatsi
the treasures and banks and are IS
suing their own paper money, redeem
ing the government notes with this.
as foreign banks are refusing gov
ernment notes
The revolutionaries have captured
WI Chang, the native ssction of
Hankow. and Han-Yang, adjoining
cities in Hu Peh province.
4 Chang Sha, capital Of Human, is re-
ported to have risen in revolt, and
Nan King, capital of the province of
i Klang Su, is on the verge Of rising,
several public buildings have been de-
stroyed.
Thousands of soldiers have Joined
the mutiny in Hu Pah, many Manchus
have been killed and the terrified peo-
, pie are neeing from the cities into
. the country, carrying their belongings.
The prisons have been opened and
, criminals liberated. There has been
| fighting in the streets. but the most
; stringent orders have been issued that
!, the lives of foreigners and their prop
i, erty shall be respected.
An American expedition dispatched
from Hankow to Wu-Chang to aid the
missionaries there, returned with all
the missionaries, except Miss r A.
Kemp of the Episcopal Society, and
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
between Wu-Chang forts and LOYAL
Chinese cruiser The firing ceased
i after British and japanese officials
has protested that il endangered the
foreign concessions.
The government in Pekin has awak-
ened to the danger of the revolution
i in Hu-Peh province Gen. Yin Tchang,
the minister OF war, departed for Pao-
!; Ting-Fu, 100 miles south of Pekin,
where the sixth division Of the army
is making preparations TO depart for
: Hankow
An imperial edict ordered the I'M
mediate dispatch of two divisions of
troops to the disaffected provinces.
f About 10000 are Manchus, against
whom the revolutionaries have risen
5 Al the same time orders We're IS
; sued for the assembling OF a feet OF
warships in the Yang -Tse-Kiang river
to unite with the land forces against
i the rebels.
! The commander of the rebels has
: issued a proclamation, in which it is
+ announced ii is the peoples army thai
has taken charge OF affairs, and it il
THE intention to overthrow the Manchr
dynasty. The proclamation threaten;
death TO any one who interferes with
foreigners
Only four battalions of Chinese
e troops at Hankow remain loyal to tht
throne. The women and children
slept on steamships in tn river dur
ing the night. Between 5000 and c,
600 regulars mutinied at Hankow. ant
. most of them Joined the revolution
. aries.
. The rebels in the province Of Fz
. Chuan hold all the country 70 tn
. westward OF the Min river betwee,
. Kiating and Kwang Hsen. Five hur
= dred regular troops have rebelle
= and there is lighting daily
= An imperial edict was issued cast
= iering yiceroy Pui Cheng OF the prov
. ince OF Hu Peh, but ordering him I