The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-06-06
A CHINESE ~INSURRECTION.
Massacre and TOrturc-Drnd Bodies En-
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Massacre and Torturc-Drnd Bcdic. En-
humcd.
The London Times has the following:
Gen. Kin Shun arrived before Nlanas on
the second of September, 1876, and five
days later opened an artillery fire on the
northeast angle of the wall. [ will not
re%capitulate the details Of Tie siege:
suffice it that breach after breach WAS
made, and assault after assault repealed,
during the period OF two months for
which it lasted. At length, during the
first days of November, ~sorties were at
tempted by the garrison, and some
prisoners who were taken stated that,
the provisions OF the garrison being az
hausted, their leader had sent them out
to see how matters stood, with Il view 10
Selling any opportunity of getting away.
After examination the prisoners were
behcaded. At length, at midnight OF
the fourth of November, the Mohamme-
dan General Eai-ven himself came out
and begged to &c permitted to surrender.
I quote the LANGUAGE of the memorial
itself rs to what followed:
"kin ShuG hcreupon commanded
him to deliver Up the horses and arms
of the garrison, and to hand over, i'll
bonds, the leaders of the rebels, after
which he was to draw up lists Of the
remainder Of their number, who were
thereupon to be called upon to answer
to their names, and be severely dealt
with according to circumstances. Hai-ven
agreed to 10 this. At daybreak on The
sixth Of November Il body Of 1000 or
5000 OF the garrison sa!liedout from tic
west gate, the center of the column con-
sisting of aged persons, women, and
children, who were guarded on all sides
by determined fighting men, with arms
in their hands; and Kin Shun, knowing
them to be treachcrously disposed, caused
his troops to stand to their arms. The
Human troops on the north of the city
were drawn up i'll battle array, us were
also the divisions on the south front,
while a separate cavalry division was
posted ut the commanding points, in
order to prevent escape. Su Hooking
was at the same time ordered to 60 Tor
ward and call upon the advancing body
to throw down their arms, whereupnn
their lives should still be spared !; but
the so-styled general of the rebels, Ho
Luh by name, suddenly fred off a pistol
and set his troops on to make q rush at the
trenches. Su Hio-kung instantly ordered
his men to charge, and Ho Luh was
taken and beheaded in front of the line
of battle. The rebel leaders and the
desperate fighting men at their back,
abandoning their women and children,
made q bold rush forward, but they were
enveloped by the various divisions of the
Human troops and the force under Kin
Shun's own command, and the greater
number Of them were put to the sword.
One of the so-called generals of the
rebels, seeing that all hope was lost,
shot himself with a pistol, and every
man of the scattered host was captured
and beheaded by one or other Of the
cavalry divisions.
"The infantry meanwhile had laid
hands upon aud executed all the rebels
remaining within the city, sparing the
women and children and aged persons,
who were exempted from this act of re-
.tribution. Hai-yen and other leaders
were captured alive, and after being eX-
amined before Kin Shun aGl his col
leagues, were put to death with the
extreme of torture. The corpses of Han
Hing-nung, Heh-tsun, and other leaders,
together with the remains of the self
styled Prince OF the Pure (~religion),
T"o-teh-lin, were searched out and ex-
humel and cut to pieces, as a publ c
example. Thus, on the sixteenth day of
November, the south cityof Mauas was
recaptured, the leaders OF the insurgents
destroyed, and their followers extermin-