The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-10-20

for months and of which the rising
in the province of Szechuen was only
small part, has begun in earnest.
1t is a concerted movement to take
the empire and declare republic.
If plans do not miscarry, the noted
exiled revolutionist, DR.. Sun Vat Sen,
leader of the anti-Manchu party, is
to be elected president. He was the
delegate of the revolutionary party
to the United States in 1910 and is
believed during that tour to have
made arrangements for financing the
movement.
Whole Assembly Secedes.
Sun Yu, brother of DIR. Sun Vat,
who is now in Hankow, has been
elected president of the provincial
assembly, and Yang Hun Lung, the
retiring president, has been elected
governor of Hupeh.
The whole assembly has seeded
from the imperial government. The
rebels are we'll organized and finan-
cially strong. They have confiscated
the local treasury and hank and. are
issuing their own paper money, re-
deeming the government notes with
this, as foreign banks are refusing
government notes.
The revolutionists have captured
Wuchang, the native section of Han
kow, and Hanyang, all adjoining
cities in Hupeh province.
Changsha, capital of Human, is re-
ported to have risen in revolt, and
Marking, capital of the province of
Kiangsu, is on the verge of a rising.
several public buildings having been
destroyed.
Thousands of soldiers have joined
the mutiny in Hupeh. Many Man.
chus have been killed and the terri
fed people are fleeing from the cities
to the country, carrying their be-
longings.
The prisons have been opened and
criminals have been liberated.
Orders have been issued for the
assem- bling of fleet of warships in
the Yangste Kiang river to unite
with the land forces against the reb-
els.
According to official reports, at
least 10000 troops have mutinied
in the province of Hupeh alone. 1t
is reported they captured thirty mod
ern guns at Wuchang.
Thnrn &c ~
that the revolutionists occupied
Changsha on October 10.
Extra precautions have been taken
in Picking to prevent rising and
large bodies of troops are guarding
the palace.
The capture of Hangyang, which is
a town of perhaps 100000, just
north of Hankow, has delivered into
the hands of the revolutionists the
arsenals and the important Hang
yang iron works. The revolution
lists had no trouble in Hangyang, ov-
erwhelmingly outnumbering the To-
cal troops. Gen. Chang Piao escap-
ed and the members of the local gov
0ruu1euC were dispersed.
Movement Is Popular.
The popularity of the revolution
airy movement all along the river and
in the interior is indicated by appar-
emily authentic reports that several
nearby cities have fallen. Where
resistance was offered, the towns ap-
pear to have been put to the torch.
Missionaries Are Safe.
New York, Oct. I2.-The Episco-
pal board of missions tody received
the following cable from Bishop
Logan H. Roots, of Hankow, China,
who has charge of the Episcopal
missionary work in that part of the
empire:
Missionaries are safe and well.
Everything is now quiet. Can re-
main here
London, Oct. IA special de-
spatch received from Shanghai says:
"A republic has been proclaimed
at Wuchang. A strong force of reb-
els has left Hankow to engage inn
perial troops coming from the north
and a big battle is expected within
two days.
1t is reported that a conflagration
has broken out in the native city of
buildings and banks have been de-
Hankow and that the government
stroyed.
Peking, Oct. 13.-Eight train loads
of troops started today from Pao-
tingfu, province Of Chilli, for the dis
trict affected by the revolution.
The revolutionists have informed
the consuls at Hankow that they
will respect all treaties and loans and
ndemnities contracted by the CHI:
nese government.
A well informed revolutionary
sympathizer told the Associated Press
that the rebels probably would leave
the capture of Picking and Shanghai
to the last, because of the danger of