The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1911-10-21

REvoLuTloNlsTs IN CHINA SEEK
THE OVERTHROW OF MAN.
Gnu DYNASTY.
MORE CITIES ARE CAPTURED
Whole Province Of Hu-Peh Now At
Mercy Of Observation-Disclosures
10 Shown for Foreigners Mission
aries All Saved.

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Pekin.-The revolutionists are now
in possession Of the cities of W.
Chang, Hankow and Han-Yang, and
all the adjoining cities In Hu-Peh
province. At Han-Yang the rebels
captured the arsenal and the i'm
portant iron works there. Authentic
reports reach here to the effect that
the object of the revolutionists is to
overthrow the Manchu dynasty and
found Chinese republic. 1t is said
that the men to fill the OFFICES of
president and vice-president OF the re-
public If the revolt is successful, have
been decided upon.
Chang Sha, capital Of Human, Is re-
ported to have risen In revolt. and
Marking. the southern capital and
one of the largest cities In the en-
pire, is said to be on the verge of
rising
An imperial edict was issued or
dering the immediate dispatch Of tive
divisions of troops to the disaffected
provinces. aE
Another edict issued orders the as
sembling Of feet of warships in the
Yong-tse-Kiang to unite with the land
forces against the rebels.
It is stated here that between TO-
900 and $4,000 imperial troops have
mutinied in the province of Hu-Peh
alone.
Thirty modern guns were captured
In the rebel victory at Wu-Chang.
General Yin Tchang. minister Of
war. left hurriedly for Pao-Ting-Fu.
100 miles south, where the Sixth army
corps is making hurried preparations
to leave for Hankow.
The noted exiled revolutionists,
DR.. Sun Vat Sen. leader of the anti
Manchu party. II the plans do not
miscarry, is to be elected president.
He was the delegate Of the revolu-
tionary party In the United States
In 1910 and is believed during that
tour to have made arrangements for
financing the movement.
Sun Yu, a brother Of DR.. Sun Vat
Sen. who is now in Hankow. has been
elected president Of the provincial
assembly, and Hang Hua Lung, the re-
firing president Of the assembly and
a noted scholar. has been elected gov
ernor of Hu-Peh.
The whole assembly has seeded
from the imperial government The
rebels are well organized and finan-
cially strong. They have confiscat-
ed the local treasures and banks and
are issuing their own paper money.
redeeming the government notes with
this. as foreign banks are refusing
government notes.
II Is reported that at Marking, "the
southern capital" capital OF Kiang-
Su, the yamens of the viceroy and
Tartan general have been de-
stroyed
Twenty miles of the Picking & Han
kow railway has been torn up and
the bridges burned. The situation 10
most serious.
The revolutionists occupied Han
kow unopposed.
Thousands of soldiers have joined
the mutiny in Hu-Peh. Many Manchus
have been killed and the terrified
people are fleeing from the cities into
the country carrying their belong
ings. The prisons have been opened
and criminals liberated. There has
been fighting in the streets. but the
most stringent orders have been is
sued that the lives of foreigners and
their property shall be respected.
An American expedition which was
dispatched from Hankow to W.
Chang to aid the missionaries, re-
turned here with all the missionaries
except Miss r. A. Kemp of the Epis-
copal society. members Of the Roman
Catholic mission. including the sisters.
and the London mission, who declined
to depart.