Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1883-10-25
SLAUGHTERED LIKE SHEEP,



How the Annamitcs were Anseacred
by the French At Hue.
LONDON, Oct. 19.-Pierre Lote,
an officer of the French expeditions
airy force IN Tonquin, sends to the
Paris Figaro the following descrip-
ton of the fall Of Hue:-
The beaten Annamites were
cooped up in the burning village.
The only road OF escape from The
flames 10y. under the gums Of the
fort, which was filed with sailors
armed with Krapotchak repeating
| rifles with sights carefully adjusted
to the distance. Magazines of rifles
were duly loaded.
AWAITING THE HUMAN QUARRY.
The men looked on waiting until
a flank movement OF the other troops
and the firing OF the bamboo huts
| should drive thu human quarry out
| before them. Ne saw them halt>
ing at the end Of the village With
singsd hair and garments. Then,
after q few moments hesitation,
| tucking up their flowing robes 40
high as they could and trying to
| protect their heads with planks
against the impending shower OF
bullets, they rushed on,
TIN BurcHnRY BEGINS.
A great butchery then commenc-
ed. Two volleys we're fred. It was
quite q treat (e'etait un plaisir) to
see these fanlike streams OF bullets
sweeping down upon the fugitives.
| They were poured in twice in one
minute at the word of command, and
| in q sure, methodical manner. 1t was
like a Jet fran a huge watering pot,
which moved them down by dozens.
FEARFUL IaH
In q cloud Of dust and gravel we
! could see some who seemed to be
driven mad, picking themselves up
| limping now one way now another,
like wounded animals. Gathering
up their robes in a comical manner,
their long hair unrastened and
streaming down their backs, made
them look like women. Others tried
to escape by swimming . lagoon to
to try to reach tho junks. These
were killed in the winter. Some good
divers remained long time under
water.
no QuARrHn.
Our men continued to kill them
all the same when they came up to
breathe like seals. The men then
amused themselves counting the
dead-ffty on the left, eighty to
the right. In the village were small
heaps. With those killed in the
southern forts, about eight hundred
OF a thousand must have been DIS
posed of. The sailors made bets as
to the numbers destroyed. About
nine in the morning all was over,
and the rout of the Annamites was
complete.
THE coNouERoRs NAE AND MERc,LEss.
The heat was intense and the
sailors, madencd by the sun and the
noise and quivering. with excite
ment, rushed out Of the fort after
the wounded. Some were crouch
ing in holes, others were feigning
death while others at the gasp were
stretching out their hands pleading
for mercy and shouting, Han, Ham,
in. he~art-rending accents. Our men
slaughtered them with bnyonets or
Drained them with the butt ends OF
their muskets. The Annamitc ser
wants, diminutive effeminate lads,
who had followed the infantry from
Saigon, were hunted out. When
one of the fugitives was unearthed
the sailors would call out, Here's
another. Come, give him 1e'sng,
lsang.'"
DISCIPLINE AT AN ENB,
These sailors were quite unrecog-
nizable. They were absolutely mad
men. The officers attempted to res
STRAIN them and said to them. "'You
ought to be ashamed OF such cow
dirty work" They replied,
"The Annamites are savages. They
carried tho head Of Captain Riviere
on the top of a pole, and il they
carried the day they would cut the
French to pieces or saw them with~
in two planks." There was 10 reply
possible to this it was true, and so