Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1911-10-28
GOVERNMENT
CLAIMS VICTORY
Sweeping Triumph over
Rebels at Hankow Ac.
cording to Wireless
SOME DOUBT IS EXPRESSED
Believed to Be a Ruse to Bolster
Up the Faltering Imperial
Cause. ...

sweeping victory for the imperia
troops there yesterday caused flut
ter in Shanghai today. The reports
were received even in official circle:
| with incredulity. Rebel sympathizer:
declared that the dispatches were un
doubtedly sent from a government
source to bolster up faltering Cause
Wireless Dispatches.
The wireless dispatches were caugh
| by some of the German naval opera
| tors. They gave no details but salt
there was fighting all day yesterday
at Hankow and that the result was
sweeping government victory, compel
ling the Revolutionaries to abandon
Hankow and fall back across the Han
river into Han Yang.
| Su Chow Threatened.
West of Shanghai, the wealthy city
OF Su Chow is threatened, while above
Ching Kiang, three important cities
Nan King, Yang Chow, and WI HUI
are believed to be in danger. All -four
of these cities reported today tina,
while the situation was quiet, there
| is open sympathy for the rebel cause
and probably little effective resistance
would be offered to attack.
Money Market Precarious.
1t is believed here that Shene
Hs1an Huai, the dismissed minister OF
! Posts and Communications, is coming
/ to Shanghai where he has magnifi.
] cent home. More than two hundred
pieces of his baggage have arrived
here from Peking, addressed in the
| care OF a foreigner. The business sit
uation is still precarious. The money
market is in an alarming state on ac-
count of the vast amounts OF specie
Withdrawn from the BANKS here by'Pe-
king and other centers.
Shanghai Is in Danger
Shanghai, Oct. 2S.-Whatever the
! situation around Hankow, matters
| have grown more desperate for the
! government cause in the vicinity OF
Shanghai and along the lower par1
OF the Yang Tse river. There. Mere
persistent reports today that CHING
kiang, $50 miles above Shanghai, was
about to fall into the hands of the reb
els. Ching kiang is the first OF the
series of lower river forts above
| Shanghai and is regarded here as the
keystone of the defense of the city.
If it falls, it is conceded that all
the forts below it as far as WI Sung
will quickly follow. WI Sung, ten
miles above Shanghai, marks the city S
| last line of defense.
Massacre Feared.
Ching Kiang, Province OF kaingsu
Oct. 2S. q p. m.)-Reports OF an i'm
pending attack by the revolutionists
caused great alarm here today. There
was no evidence of any uprising with
in the city, however, ana it was hoped
that trouble might be avoided if the
revolutionists could be prevailed on tt
await the outcome of the parleys a
Peking There are many high Manchl
officials here and a massacre is fearet
if the city falls.
| Manchus Disguise Themselves.
Annoy, China, Oct. 2S.-Revolution
airy sympathy has developed to sucl
an alarming extent here that Taota
Ching. the only Manchu official il
Annoy, today sent his family to Fl
Chow. the capital of the province TO-
protection. AS a precaution, all mem
bers of the household on their voyag1
northward, wore the clothing Of th'
native Chinese, discarding their Maj
chu robes.
Imperials Retake Hankow.
Siaokan, CHA, Oct. 2S.-(From
correspondent with the Imperial arm
under General Yin Tchang).- na
tive city of Hankow was re-capture
from the rebels yesterday after da
of sanquinary lighting. The imperia
lists captured large quantities Of gun
and ammunition.
Two engagements were fought. TIL
first began at 6 o'clock a. M, sout
of Shekou at Saotao bridge toward
Liuchiamiao. Supported by the wa
; ships, the imperial troops forced tn
rebels from their position at Lichi
! Temple, which was captured at !
o'clock.
; Rebels Lost 430 Men.
The fighting recommended in tn
: direction of the Tachih gate of Hal
: kow. The rebels were strongly el
trenched west of the race course. Th
imperialists forced their way acros
Saotao bridge and seized the town (
Lichia. Driving the enemy befol
them, the loyal troops entered the n
. tive city of Hankow.
n The imperialists lost about fort
a killed, including a captain and tv
J. lieutenants, while $50 others wei
). wounded. The rebels lost $50 me
Big Victory for Government.
9 Peking, Oct. 2S.-The minister
war, General Yin Tchang, reports
the government today victory ov
Ie the rebel forces in the vicinity of Ha
a. kow, saying: "The first division of t
d imperial army, advanced from Shek
g yesterday. attacking the position Of t
If rebels. The imperialists crossed 81
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