The Archive · 1911

BOMBARDMENT OF

FOOCHOW

Foochow, Nov. 9. ihe revolutionaries have successfully bombarded Foochow. Foreigners are safe—-Our Own Correspondent.

At 11.30 am. yesterday the Japanese Consulate General received telegram from Foochow. It said that at 230 am, the revolutionaries attacked the Mancha Street, berat the' Governor's yeméa and occupied the magazine, Fighting lasted about three hours, but at length the revolutionaries were victorious. The revolutionaries! have issued " proclamation in the name of the Commander of the standing army, Song Tao-joo, who is described as a Governor-General of the Chinese Military Repoblic. The revolutionaries are compared of the whole of the standing army and the volunteers,

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