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Show REAL WAR 1 CHINA GOVERNMENT ENDEAVORING TO ISOLATE PROVINCES AFFECTED BY REVOLUTION. Places Restrictions on Telegraph Lines and Refuses to Reveal the Number or Destination of Troops Being Sent Out from Pekln. Pekln The Chinese government has placed several restrictions on the telegraph lines, evidently for tho pur-poe pur-poe of preventing communication between be-tween the rebels. The telegraph ad-mini' ad-mini' (ration refuses to transmit messages mes-sages either to or from the provinces of llu Pch, Hunan, Klang Si, Sze Chuen, Kwai Chow and Yunan. On this account, Hankow where the revolution Is at Its height. Is cut off. It Is not considered possible that tho w ires have been cut throughout these si provinces. Until lately the revo'u-tionailes, revo'u-tionailes, having free use of the wires, received and disseminated Information (oncernlng the progress of their plans In all Quarters. The government refuses to reveal the number or tho destination of the troops who are being sent southward. Duly a Winnie first class train will be run dally between Pekln and Tlent-sing-Fit, about seventy miles to tho southeast of the capital. This Is due to heavy troop traffic and for the purpose pur-pose of preventing any great number of rebels from coming Into Pekln. Passenger Pas-senger and freight traffic has been entirely suspended between Pekln and Hankow. So far the government has refused to permit correspondents to accompany accom-pany the army. Both, ttldcs are anxious an-xious to favor foreigners, and It in believed be-lieved that the government will reconsider re-consider this refusal If tho Imperialists Imperial-ists meet with initial success The last dispatch received from Hankow said that the revolutionaries had organized a lied Cross society and had Invited the cooperation of the American Episcopal mission. This Invitation was accepted provisionally. |