The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-09-12
Nearest Gunboats Are Three
Hundred Miles Away
Natives Ugly.
CHINESE SITUATION is GRAVE
At Least a Hundred Europeans
Face Death in SzeChuen, if
Not Yet Killed.

PICKING, September lO-Intenso
anxiety exists here regarding the fate
of at least one hundred foreigners in
the Province of szechuen, where the
anti-foreigner sentiment is strongest
and where the government IS railroad
policy is being the most strenuously OPP
| posed. Word has reached here that the
foreigners residing in the city of Ching
tn, the capital of the Province, have
been ordered to leave and that they are
now fleeing for their lives down the
River Min, in an effort to reach the
Aangtze, but cannot navigate the Min
and are consequently powerless to help
the foreigners most in danger.
The greatest anxiety prevails in gov
ernmental circles here and throughout
the legations. The fate of the foreign
ers IS problematieal and in many quar-
iers it is feared that they have already
been massacred.
Washington Alarmed
H WASHINGTON. September eAo.
eording to news received here bv the
state department, anti-foreipn nlacards
are being posted in the city of Cbingtn
and the surrounding country. calling
upon the natives to drive out the for.
eigners. Grave reports from many parts
or the Empire have been received and
violence to foreigners is threatened at
Cause of the Revolt
Corrupt systems of government ana
Oppressive policies in regard 10 +bo
press and railroads are the canses of
the present outbreak in China. and
particularly in Canton, which is dlling
the cable forms, according to Editor
Woon of the Liberty News, the local
revolutionary paper.
The Liberty News, which is mower
ful in revolutionary circles, has been
able, to keep in closer touch with the
moving causes in disturbed China than
the white press and the closing down
OF all newspapers in the viceregal city
OF Canton and its provinces is said, by
Woon, to be one of these. -Four papers.
one of which was but two DAYS old,
nave been abolished in Canton and two
IN Hankow. The respective editors of
the two latter are now imprisoned.
The railroad naturalization policy
IS perhaps the greatest factor in the
present embryo revolution, saws Woon,
the first move of the government IN.
der this oppressive policy being to for.
bid all meetings of railroad stockhold.
ers, to which they claim a right under
commercial law
Stockholders, had called meeting
and passed a resolution of objection
! against selling the railroads to the gov
eminent, which elects to absorb them
In Its own way, but the government,
in turn, seized all their records and
! minutes and destroyed them, serving
! notice that future meetings would be
! broken up by troops.
This tabue against railroad stock
J holder IS meetings has been extended
by law to all provinces and troops or
dered to fire ON viOlators Several meet
ings have already been arbitrarily
broken up in Chang-Tu, capital of the
province of Seechn. In the Wan Nam
province all meetings and speeches on
Sunday have been forbidden with the
object of preventing the attendance of
students and the resultant inclbation
of revolutionary Ideas.
All national guards have been abolish
ed in all provinces under the belief
that they belong, or sympathize, with
the revolutionary party.
: About Canton.
In the recent outbreak in Canton,
which occurred two months ago, seyea-
ty-two rebels were killed and 600 or
more arrested and subjected to the hor-
rors of Chinese prison and torture for
having performed deeds notable in the
eyes of the revolutiohists.
After the outbreak was over Admiral
Lee Chun entered several provinces to
carry the sword to all he suspected, or
feigned to suspect, of revolutionary
Tendencies, in order to curry favor and
promotion at the hands of the Manchu
government. He<-accused hundreds of
} people most of whom we're Innocent
and selected specially those who had
no qaeues as being of the progressive
party. A summary end was put to his
ambitions, shortly afterwards, as the
cable reported, by revolutionary
bomb.
The present cable dispatches concern
ing the mediation to kill foreigners,
says Editor Woon, are the result of,
the oblique policies of the imperial gov.
, eminent, which tries to throttle the
movement by its own vindietiveness.
, Agents of the government posing as
revOlutionsts continually call for the
hlIuHF VI ino iOlNlEhSla, NC hd9nt %
Z was the case in the Boxer rebellion, in
! hopes that the foreign powers will step
in on the side of the Manehu govern.
: meat.
Editor Woon calls attention to the
fact that in the recent spontaneous up,
rising OF the Cantonese, foreigners re-
manned in perfect safety, the reyolu-
4 tioniets directing their nttnmpts TO,
y wards the government only, the latter
a having no time 10 incite that feeling
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