21 OCTOBER 1911, Page 2

The news of the rising in China during the week

seems to show that there have been no decisive developments. The energies of the Imperial Government have been chiefly devoted to hurrying troops along the railway from Peking to Hankau. The Times correspondent reported that the despatch of two divisions, over twenty thousand strong, to the south began on October 14th, and, as the railway has worked well, the first batch of them seem to have arrived in the vicinity of Hankau two days later. Meanwhile Admiral Sa Cheng-ping has reached Hankau with a fleet of some six or eight cruisers and four thousand troops. The number of rebel troops seems quite uncertain, but the military corre- spondent of the Times estimates that they cannot have more than seven thousand drilled men.