Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1911-10-22
REBELS MAY
Be WINNERS
They Hold Important Stra-
tegical Position From
Which Imperial Troops
Will Have Trouble in Dis
lodging Them.

PEKING. oct 21.-GeneraI Yien
Tsching. the war minister. who is in
the neighborhood Of Sin Yang Chau. in
Human province. has completed the
opinion held here is that he has no
| intention for the present To begin an
advance against the revOlutionaries
holding the towns Of Wu Chang. Hun
Yang and Hankow. The provinces Of
Human and Hu Peh divided by a high
range Of hills, through which the only
pass for many miles is traversed by the
railway. 1t is reported this pass is
held by the rebels. who have posted
many guns. They are supposed TO
have cut off 5000 Imperial troops
which are going northwarI from Han
kow.
The government first mentioned
Kwang Shui. which is on the south
slope of the hills. as the place OF Yin
Tchangs mobilization. but evidently
the war minister has been content To
assemble his forces on the north side
of the hills The pass is believed To
he impossible by troops under Yin
Tchang Whether he will reinforce
them is doubted because the growing
unrest makes necessary many troops
around Peking \ reliable report has
reached here that the morning of Oc-
tober Is a third brigade Of government
troops. arriving at the Liu Cha Mao
station were fired upon by rebels with
SO field guns. whereupon the whole
brigade stampeded. The north provin-
cial troops hastened to their aid but
without avail. as the riot could not he
checked. The same advices state the
division had no option To do anything
but return and await reinforcements.
It is evident, if the report Of the rou.
be true. that the government does not
hold Kwang Shut. The American CON
sui at Che Foo reports to the legation
that the Shang Tung cities are quiet.
The coasts. however are SWarming
with pirates The che Foo bank failed
Yesterday The Chinese government is
SO short of money that it is believed it
will be unable to pay salaries to metro
politan officials next month The gov
ernment has withdrawn all customs
receipts amounting to 700 600 taels to
Using Tao. AdViceS from Kaifening.
Human. say recruiting is going actively
on. Most Manchu troops have left for
the south. and there appears To be no
among the men. Ban
dts are getting active i'm some prov
inces. Troops attacked and killed sew
eral hundred of them i'm Loshu prov
ince
\ dispatch from the British consul
at Hankow. dated noon. october 20. /
saws:
THE railway station at Kilometren
was evacuated by the Imperial forces
Imperialists are now hold /
ing the station at Ten Mile creek. 10y
alist warships have retreated to a /
point out of sight Of Hankow."
MANILA. oct 21.--Local merchants |
have received advices from naval au-
thorities To deliver at once all food /
supplies which have been contracted |
for on behalf Of marines stationed |
here II is announced the assembl- |
age Of supplies was made as pre-
measure in view Of the |
possibility that the entire force will he |
despatched for emergency duty at |
HankOw That naval authorities re- |
gard the present disturbances i'm !
China likely To be of long duration is |
indicated by the fact that the collier |
Abarenda. which sails this week for /
Shanghai. took ammunition for a long /
campaign.