The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1911-06-10
YELLOW KINGDOM DEMANDS
HEAVY INDEMNITY FOR MAS.
sAcRE OF SUBJECTS.
CRUISER IS ON THE WAY
Twelve Million Pesos ls Sum Request.
Cd for Slaughter Of over Three Hun.
dred Orientals in Torreon, Whence
Came Barbarous Stories Of Inhunar
Killings and Torture Of the Helpless.

Mexico City. June 9.-An indemnity
of 1?,0O0,000 pesos will be demanded
of Mexico by the Chinese government
for the slaughter of Chinese subjects
In Torreon. The demand will be backed
up by cruiser which Is on the way
to Mexican west coast ports
Three investigators returned today
from Torreon and placed In the hands
or Shung Hal Sung, charge of the Chi
nese legation, detailed report of the
carnage. This shows 303 Chinese were
killed, many OF them in most in
human manner. and that besides bank
and clubhouse, so places of business
were sacked.
In addition to the indemnity, an
apology for insult to the Chinese flag
VIII be demanded: also that aid bc
extended to destitute families of the
victims: that the guilty be punished,
and the constitutional guarantees OF
protection to Chinese lives and prop
erty be made effective.
or the 100000 pesos indemnity.
100000 Is for property damage, and
the remainder for the loss of lives.
Commenting upon the matter. Mr..
Shung said that owing to the savage
manner In which the Chinese were
killed. there has been no attempt by
his nation to fix the amount of the
Indemnity by prescribed methods.
Anti Foreign Excitement.
The report made by the investigators
goes back to the anti foreign excite
ment starting on September 16, Mex
ico's centennial anniversary. when, at
a public meeting In Torreon, "the kill
ing Of the Spaniards first and then
the Chinese" was advocated by a
speaker.
In the detailed report the Torreon
massacre is laid at the door of both
sides in the revolution 1t says the
federals gave no notice that they were
going to evacuate the city after being
hopelessly beaten, and when ruffians
knew the soldiers had gone they be-
gan an anti Chinese demonstration,
killing many.
Then the rebels entered the city and
the carnage was given an impetus. The
federals are blamed for not giving no.
tice that they intended evacuating and
the rebels for joining the massacre.
The report relates tale after tale OF
barbarous stories OF how victims
arms and legs were tied to horses and
their bodies torn asunder; heads cut
off and savagely rolled about the
streets as the Mexicans grnned in
Slee; bodies cut into small bits and
scattered about streets, and of dead
and half-dead Chinese dragged about
town at the ends OF ropes attached to
horses. Blood dripping through the
floor In the Chinese bank was terrible
evidence of the murder of % men in
the second story.
An American woman saved the life
of one Chinese boy by throwing her
arms about his neck as they were about
to stab him, and Mexican girl pro-
tected nine Chinese in her home after
her father had been shot dead before
her eyes when he protested he was not
harboring any Orientals.
The report says the slaughter kept
up until Il party of business men, head
ed by the American consul. demanded
of the rebel leader that the massacre
dc stopped. 1t was stopped, and the 200
Orientals left were put In Jail for
safety. There the prison guards took
all their money and most of their
clothes, the report says.