Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-02-05
REBELLION IN CHINA.
Further Particulars of the Recent Revolt
and Its Suppression.

and Its Suppression.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 5.-The steamer
China, which arrived from China and
Japan, brought advices giving details of
the revolt and its suppression, in Man
churia The rebels, it appears, were
merely bandits who roam the country
outside the wall of China. Last spring
they joined forces and entered upon a
regular plan of campaign of plunder.
They were all well armed, and being, as
stated, mainly composed of prescribed
Chinese criminals, they fought desper-
ately whenever pitted against the Chi
nese troops, and for long time always
defeated their adversaries.
Some of the large bands We're led by
Buddhist priests. One of the most
notorious of these priestly marauders
was Han Chan Chung, who recently
lost his life during a fierce engagement
with the Chinese troops. He was for
many years enshrined in a Mongolian
temple as the living Buddha.
There is no doubt but that the most
horrible atrocities were perpetrated by
the wandering desperadoes. Eye wit
nesses state that almost the entire popu-
lation of villages were cruelty maltreat-
ed and victims in every village muir
dered. The burning Of children alive
the brutal treatment and murder of
women, was the general line of conduct
of these inhuman fends.
A band of 500 invaded Kutulan in the
dead of night, captured all they did not
kill outright and before leaving put ten
men in large cOrnhut, securely
fastened all places of egress, after which
they set fire to the place. The shrieks
of those beirg burned alive reached the
ears of few persons who had escaped
to the hills. The scene was horrible in
the extreme.
The reb~ls raided and DESTROYED
Christian and heather villages alike, but
to captives of the former places they
acted in particularly ferocious manner.
At a place called Talijow, which has
been Christian for two centuries, they
massacred nine ClInese sisters or nuns
and burned the orphanage, which con-
tained sixty little inmates, The piercing
of bodies of captives with heated bay
onets and spears the gouging out of
eyes, the disemboweling or burying
alive of victims were among the atroci-
ties practiced by the rebels.
One band is said to have been led by an
amazon who rode astride her horse like
a man. 1t was reported among her fol-
lowers that she drank the blood of the
victims in order to maintain her cour-
age.
The suppression of the revolt is not
entirely due to the efforts of the Chinoae
government. 1t was really the extreme
cold that had most to do with it. The
robbers cou / not stand the campaignirg
in the wint1y weather and many of them
retired to their strongholds in the hills.
Their power. however, is broken.
The imperial troops showed as little
mercy to the rebels captured by them as
the robbers themselves had shown to
their victims. Many prisoners were
taken, but most of them were executed
OF the spot. The executions were CON
Quoted on a wholesale scale. The men
were beheaded in hundreds and the en-
tire trunks of trees We're utilized as
blocks, along which the prisoners Wee
arranged in lines and their executioneIs
simply moved off their heads when TIE
signal was given. The heads were hung
in long rows on poles as a warning to
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