Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1911-10-19
MANCHUS ARE
MASSACRED
Six Steamers Packed With
Refugees Arrive at
Shanghai
REBELS CONTROL THE VALLEY
Chinese Officials and Troops
Have Retreated Into
Large Towns.

(By Special Leased Wire to New Mexican)
Shanghai, Oct 19.-Six packed
steamers arrived here from Hankow
today carrying refugees. The steamer
Belgravia was occupied exclusively by
foreign passengers, who were given
free accommodations at the direction
of the consuls in Hankow. The ship
was so crowded that many of the pas
sengers slept on the floors of the
hold Most of the foreigners were
Russians employed in the tea factories
and Belgian iron workers employed
in the steel works, the Han Yang
arsenal and on the Peking Hankow
railway.
Rebels Hold Entire Valley.
The refugees declare that the whole
Yang Use valley from Hankow to
Shanghai is in the hands of the rebels
with the possible exception of one or
two of the larger cities to which pro-
vincial officials have retired with their
available troops.
Massacre of Manchus.
1t had been insistently stated here
that Kru Kiang, $50 miles below Han.
kow, is under revolutionary control
This is denied. however, by foreign of.
ficials and by the representatives Of
the Chinese customs service. Ac-
counts of the revolutionary attack on
WI Chang, as given by the refugees
! today emphasizes the massacre of the
Manchus there.
Neither Age Nor Sex Regarded.
In the slaughter neither age nor
sex was regarded, and it is doubtful
the refugees say, whether a single
representative of the Manchu race
was left alive.
Similar slaughter of the Manchus
followed in Hankow and Han Yang
when those cities fell.
| Copies of the Central China Post
which arrived on the Belgravia, de
scribe the early progress of the revo
| lutionary movement:
A CHASTITY Blow.
''The revolutionary leaders," the
paper says, displayed secrecy
promptitude and thoroughness-quali
ties seldom shown by the governing
classes in China. But the massacre
of the Manchus in our three cities Il
a CHASTITY blow on the reputation o.
the revolutionaries."
Run on Imperial Bank.
The run on the Imperial bank here
still continues but the officials appear
to have ample resources.
They are now paying out for the
first time the newly minted dragon
design dollars from the mint at Nan
king, the provincial capital.
Their large reserve of Mexican dol
lars was exhausted early in the
week.
Red Cross Organization.
A Red Cross organization has beer
started here. At Hankow and w,
Chang, Chinese women are serving a!
Red Cross volunteers for the frs
time.
| Plots and Counter Plots.
Shanghai is hot-bed of revolution
and rumofs of plots and counter-plot.
are numberless. A formal appeal is
sued by the revolutionary agents her,
today says: "We appeal for the CO
operation of our brethren Throughout
! the world. Those with money shoult
contribute funds; those with wisdom
should devise plans; those with phys
ical prowess should mount steeds an,
join the ranks; those with informa
tion should secretly report the enemy
condition. We expect that our move
ment will succeed. If 1t fails. the tel
days massacres of Hang Chow an,
Kiating when the Manchus subdue,
China, will be repeated.
To Turn Universe About.
1T Is hoped that our patriot
brethren will respond from all diret
tions and with unanimous hands will
turn this universe about"
Sounds Like Hanna and Haaerman.
A proclamation credited to the rev
} olutionary leader in Hankow follows
} Il come to save the Chinese people
I have no idea, of acquiring persona
profit or preference, but aim only t
pull you out Of the fire and cure you
cankering maladies. Hitherto 70,
have been bitterly oppressed. 70,
have been drowned In a sea of mis-
cry by government Of aliens. You
rulers have treated you like bastards
!, not like children.
Just Like Democratic Dope.
LET whoever is animated by pa
triotic sentiment come quickly an,
join our ranks. With us he will OF
tain unending glory by delivering hi
country from the Manchu barbarian
who hitherto has eaten our flesh
From now on, we shall sleep In hi
skin.
Fierce!
: "Yet let us be merciful even to ou
enemies. Our soldiers must be care
: full not to recklessly kill the Manchus
Let us give them an opportunity t
surrender their uniforms and wear
ons. If they do not then yield, an,
; continue enemies of the revolutionar,
movement, they must be killed"
CONSERVATION at Capital.
Peking, Oct. 19-The court ofiicia
: announcement this morning that tele
graphic communication with Hankoy
). had been interrupted since sunset las
night, caused CONSERVATION through