The Archive · 1911

PARTITION SUGGESTED

Foreign official telegrams from Hankow received last evening, however, state that Li Yuaa-hung be prepared to agree to the partition of China, the south of the Yangtze being Republican, Manchuria and Chibli Monarchical, and other provinces to have their choice. Many of Li Yuan-hung's followers th baolute irreconeilal demand nothing less than the overthrow of the Government, scouting the idea of a division of the Empire. This is supposed to be the reason why Li Yuan-bung recently asked delegates from other provinces to meet al Wouchang to discuss the situation.

HANYANG STRONGHOLD, Li Yoan-bung, having appointed the distinguished leader Huan Hsing commander-in-chief, has now greater freedom to attend to administrative offal Hoon Hsing is making Hanyang his headquarters, and be is ably directing the rebel defences there, realizing that the capture of that important fortress would weaken tremendously the revolutionaries.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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