Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1911-11-10
HANKOW BURNED,
0Ss$5O,0OO,0O0
REPORTED THAT TWO-THlRDS OF
AREA OF CHINESE CITY
is IN ASHES.
100000 PEOPLE LEFT HOMELESS
Hundreds Said to Have Died in Flames
American Missions and Some
Government Buildings
Spared.

Hankow, Nov. 9.-The city of Han
kow has been destroyed by fire over
two-thirds of it's extent. The lowest
estimate of the loss is $50,000,0O0
Four hundred thousand persons are
destitute. Hundreds of half burned
bodies lie among the ruins. Many of
them are the bodies of women and
children.
The customs house, the postoffice
and the American missions have been
spared. The city has been looted, the
imperialists taking hand in the pill
check this work, and executed a num-
Der of soldiers.
Refugees were deprived of their loot
On entering the British concession,
cart loads of valuable furs, silks and
fewelry being seized. 1t is suggested
that the Red Cross receive the pro-
ceeds
The consuls appealed to the imper-
ialists to cease burning the town. A
proclamation, which was issued i'm
mediately, declared that the rebels
we're responsible for the fires and Or
iered that these be checked. The fol-
lowing day, new fires started in vari-
ous quarters.
The David Hill memorial school for
The blind, connected with the Wesleyan
mission, was looted, while, in contrast,
all the mission property in WI Chang,
which is held by the revolutionaries,
aas been protected.
Reports of Brutality.
| Foreigners who have not had an op-
oortunity of witnessing the engage
nents, except at a distance, are hear
| ing horrifying stories of brutality. The
| mperiaiists have hanged men. and,
falling to strangle them, tortured them
% death, prodded them with bayonets
Or crushed them to death with stones.
The outrages against women cannot
| be told. Red Cross bearers have been
killed or wounded. Soldiers on both
sides have slaughtered their wounded
enemies.
Yuan Shi Kai is in this neighbor-
hood, but he is keeping his presence
! hidden. 1t is suspected that he went
aboard British gunboat, and it rumor-
! ed that he has been interviewing re.
publican leaders secretly.
| A thousand revolutionary soldiers
from HUMAN reached WI Chang Al
| [-Chang and other river ports the re
! publicans are collecting the customs
| duties. Consular reports from I-Chang
say refugees from Chung-King, in SEE
| Chuan province, are bound thither. Sc
cret societies are gaining control In
SEE Chuan. The mobs at Kiu-kiane
are violent
Battle at Marking.
| Shanghai.--Latest advices received
here say that the attempt of the insur
gents to seize Marking was only partly
successful. They We're repulsed al
some points, but captured the armory
| forts behind the city. They lost more
| than 100 men killed. At the south
gate 1000 imperialicts joined the rev
olutionares on receipt of 100000 taels
| ($200,OO0). The Manchu general
! Chang Chun, is still holding out.
Foo Chow Captured.
Foo ChoW-Foo Chow has fallen
into the hands of the rebels after g
short resistance. The viceroy and
! Tartar general have escaped. The
yamen has been burned, but all for
| eigners are safe and well protected.
No Loan For China.
Paris Representatives of the Amer
| lean, French and English bankers in
| terested in the Chinese currency re
| form loan at a meeting here unani
mously decided that the situation in
! China was critical and accordingly il
was decided that no action be taker
in furthering the loan at present. ]
P Morgan, Jr., attended the confer
| ence
Who's Loony Now?
Pekin.---It is semi-officially stated
that the regent, Prince Chung is incap
able of connected thought and that the
mobiles are unable to agree upon a def
mite line of action.
Nine. Curie Wins Noble Prize.
Stockholm, Nov. 9.-The Noble prize