The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-10-13
Great Empire is Fairly Honey
conbed With DiSCord
DYNASTY HANGS IN BALANCE
Capital Of Empire Itself Is Threatened
and Trouble Is No Longer Con-
fined to the Central Provinces
of the Country.

Peking. Oct. l3-China to-day faces
an unprecedented crisis. With the spread
of revolutionary activity, opinion Is
gaining ground that the fate of the rul-
ing dynasty is in the balance. The
revolution is no longer confined to the
central provinces. Peking itself IS
threatened Members OF the cabinet ad-
nit that the garrison here is honey
combed with revolutionary sentiment.
To-day's news included the reports
that Chung King was III danger, that
I-Chang was taken and that Yo-Chow
had fallen. Efforts of the authorities
for the present are concentrated in an
attempt to provide adequate defense for
the capital city
Word from Hankow this morning says
the city is desolate. Last night was
a night of terror for the populace. There
was a massacre of Manchu families,
which left large numbers of dead. To
add to the danger, all prisons were
opened, the inmates being released to
wander about the town. The revolu-
tionary organization is making every ef-
fort to restore order.
Hankow, oct. l3.-The revolution
which has been hanging over China Tor
months past, and of which the rising in
the province of SzeChuen was only a
small part, has begun in earnest. 1t is a
concerted movement to take the empire
and declare republic. The noted exiled
revolutionist, DR.. Sun Vat Sen, leader of
the anti-Manchu party, if the plans do
not miscarry, 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 the financing Of
the movement.
Sun Yu, brother of Dr. Sun Vat Sen,
who is now in Hankow. has been elected
president OF the provincial assembly,
and Tang Hua Lung, the retiring presi-
dent of the assembly, has been elected
governor of Hu.Peh
The whole assembly has seeded from
the imperial government. The rebels are
well organized and financially strong
They have confscated the local treasur
les and banks and are issuing their own
paper money, redeeming the government
notes with this, as the foreign banks are
refusing the government notes
The reyolutionaries have captured WI.
Chang, the native section of Hankow
and Han Yang, all adjoining cities in
Hu-Peh province. Chang g-Sha, capital Of
Human, is reported to have risen in re-
volt and Marking, capital of the prov
inee of Kiang-Su, is on the verge of a
rising. Several public buildings have
been destroyed.
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 belongings. The prisons
have been opened and the criminals lib
Grated There has been fighting in the
streets. but the most stringent orders
have been issued that the lives of for
eigners and their property shall be re.
spected.
An American expedition which was
dispatched from Hankow to Wu-Chang
for the purpose of aiding the mission-
aries there returned here yesterday with
all the missionaries, with the exception
Of Miss Rakemp of the Episcopal soci-
ETY., the members Of the Roman Catholic
mission, including the Sisters, and the
London mission, who declined to depart.
There was a brief exchange of shots
Yesterday between the Wu-Chang forts
and loyal Chinese cruiser. The firing
ceased after the British and Japanese
officials had protested that it endangered
the foreign concessions.