Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1911-10-20
HANK0W REBELS
MASSACRE SCORES
CHINESE CITY PRESENTS SCENE
OF DESOLATiON FOLLOWING
I, NIGHT OF TERROR.
PRISONERS LIBERATED FROM JAIL
incendtary Fires Burn in Native Sec
:ions-Fate Of Ruling Dynasty in
the Balance-RevoIution
Throughout Empire

Hankow, China, Oct. 14.-Followine
4 night of terror with death stalking
through the streets and lurking IN
every shadow, this city presents a
scene of desolation. All night long
incendiary fires burned throughout the
native quarters with no effort made
to stay the leaping flames which
licked up everything with which they
came in contact The wanton mas
sacre of Manchu families left scores
of dead and to add to the horrors all
the prisons were opened and inmates
liberated. Many OF these are desper-
ate criminals.
It is reported that rebels are pro.
ceeding northward to meet the i'm
perial troops and that thousand
troops in the province of Honan. ad.
joining the disanected province of HUI
Peh, also are prepared to resist the
imperials.
The revolutionary army is strongly
entrenched in WI Chang and Han
Yang with guns mounted in command
ina, positions. With the capture of
The Han Yapg arsenal, the leaders de.
clare confidently that they are in a
position to cope with any opposition.
being now provided with ample am.
munition.
Parties of governmental troops ar.
irving here from time to time are met
promptly by revolutionists, who en-.
deavor to persuade them to Join the
movement. If they refuse they are
allowed to withdraw beyond the limits
Of the city.
The American consul general. Roger
8. Greene. crossed the Yangtse river
to WI Chang, accompanied by the
commander of the American gunboat
Helena. the Associated Press CORE
spondent and two Chinese interpre.
ters. The party went unarmed and
entered the gates of the city after they
had been opened for squad of rebel
artillery to pass out.
The party interviewed Colonel Ii,
the rebel commander, who treated
them with every courtesy and assured
them of their safety while in the city.
The consul general gathered up forty.
four foreigners who had not yet left
the city, including Americans, English.
men and Italians. and took them back
to Hankow. The missionaries were
accompanied by 800 of their Chinese
proteges. The party was unmolested
on it's way through WI Chang, being
escorted all the way by a squad of
rebel troops.
Government Troops Start.
Pekin.-Eight train loads of troops
started from Poa-Tig-Fa, province in
Chilli, for the affected district. The
suls at Hankow that they will respect
all treaties and loans and indemni-
ties contracted by the Chiense govern
ment.
A we'll informed revolutionary SYM
pathizer told The Associated Press
that the rebels probably would leave
the capture of Pekin and Shanghai to
the last because of the danger of the
foreign complications.
1t is reported that the rebels al.
lowed the weekly express to leave
Hankow, crowded with refugees. 1t
IL believed the rebels found more
than 100000 in Mexican money
when they raided the treasury at Han
kow and also obtained half million
dollars in the same coin from the
Hankow merchants.
Or. Sen in United States.
New York.-News of the presence
in this country of DR.. San Vat Sen
hailed as the president of the Chinese
republic, to be born if the present
revolution is successful, was announc'
ed in New York by the publishers
of the Chinese Reform News. 1t was
already known, however, in New
York's Chinese quarter that the brains
of the uprising was still in the United
States and Chinatown was inclined
to smile at the cable reports saying
that DR.. Sen was in China. He has
been lecturing in the United States
for months and, according to Chinese
here, has sent more than 100000 to
China to further the cause of the rev.
0lution.
DR.. Sen long has been identified
with the revolutionary movement and
was one of the leaders of plot to
seize Canton in 1895 and from that
city carry on the revolutionary move
ment. The plot was discovered and
Is Of the instigators slain. DIR. Sen
fed to Hong Kong, where he became
q British subject.
Chicago.-Dr. Sun Vat Sen, leader
of the revolutionaries in China and
in line for the presidency there II
the uprising be successful, is in Chi.
cago.
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