The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-10-20
FOREIGN NEWS.

The Chinese rebels have been mi
BILE to maintain order at Hankow and
business has been suspended com.
pletely there and at Hanyang and WI
chang. The working classes are with
out employment and are attempting
to plumber. It is reported that rebels
are proceeding northward to meet the
imperial troops and that 1000 troops
in the province of Honan, adjoining
the. disaffected province of Hupeh,
also are prepared to resist the impe-
rials.
The Duke of Connaught was for
mally welcomed to Canadian shores
at Quebec and shortly after he was
sworn in as governor general. AS he
landed at the Kings dock twenty-one
guns at the citadel doomed out across
the st. Lawrence, while thousands of
loyal citizens took up the echo of the
cannon and cheer after cheer passed
along the crowded line of procession
to the parliament building.
The revolutionary movement In
China is gaining momentum with ev-
cry hour. 1t has swept the little city
of Wucharg and the native headquar-
tiers of Hankow. Great numbers Of
Chinese are joining the movement vol
UNFAIRLY. The losses in the fighting
thus far aggregate several hundred,
but practically all the dead are Man
chus.
Fighting for the possession of the
little town of Chiapilla, Mex, held by
insurrectos whose strength was esti-
mated at goo, a force of volunteers
numbering but 1870 killed 100 rebels
and captured LOG, eighteen of whom
were wounded. The loss to the gov
a dozen killed.
China today faces an unprecedented
crisis. With the spread of revolution
airy activity the opinion is gaining
ground that the fate Of the dynasty
hangs in the balance. The revolution
no longer is confined to the central
provinces, a thousand miles away from
the capital. Picking itself is threat
ened.
All foreigners have been advised by
their consuls to leave the districts af-
fected by the rebellion in China. The
Russian residents in Hankow have al
ready taken refuge on a German boat
and the other white people living in
the city are preparing to board the
foreign gunboats lying in the river.
News of the, first engagement be-
tween the Chinese revolutionists and
the imperial forces has been received
at San Francisco, a cablegram to the
Chinese Free Press giving an account
of the disabling of three government
gunboats by the revolutionists a
Hankow.
The attempted counter revolution in
Portugal has failed. The royalists,
disappointed in their hopes that the
people would rise and join them, have
been driven back to the frontier, leav-
ing several hundred prisoners in the
hands of the government forces.
News has reached Picking that the
Chinese revolutionaries have cap:
tured Wuchang, the capital of the
province of Hupor. The commander
of the troops defending the city was
killed by a bomb and the viceroy es-
capped only by hasty flight.
An earthquake of brief duration &C.
Cured in Sicily, the strongest shocks
being felt at the east base of Mount
Aetna. Troops were dispatched to the
work of rescue and removed twenty
bodies. Eighty persons r known to
nave been injured.
!. The official report of the progress
of the revolution in Northern Mexico
states that thirty revolutionists were
killed and seventy injured in a
battle at Chaipas.
Delayed advices have been received
that eighteen persons were killed by
the storm which swept the western
coast of Sonora, Mex. Many more
are missing.