The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-10-25
NONE LEFT ALIVE
The Chinese Spare Neither Age Nor SIX
in M4ssac:e Of Marchus
TIE DEAD ARE PILED UP

TIE DEAD ARE PILED UP
CONSERVATION Resigned at the Capi.
tai AL Day Thursday, and Refu.
gees from the Fighting Zone Tel
OF Horrors of Chinese Revolutions
at Hankow and War Chang.
A cablegram from Shanghai
China, says six packed steamers ar.
rived here from Hankow today car
rying refugees. The steamer Belgra-
via was occupied exclusively by for.
eign passengers who were given free
accommodations at the directions Of
the consul in Hankow. The ship was
so crowded that mnay of the pas
sengers slept on the floor of the
hold. Most of the foreigners were
Russians employed in the tea facto-
ries and Belgian iron workers, en-
ployed in the steel works, the Han
Yang arsenal, and on the Peking-
Hankow Railway.
The refugees declare that the whole
Yang Tse Valley, from Han'kow to
Shanghai, is in the hands of the reb-
els with the possible exception of one
or two Of the larger cities to which
provincial officials have retired with
their available troops. It has been in
sistently stated here that Kiu Kiang,
Is miles below Hankow, is under
revolutionary control. This is denied,
however, by foreign officials and by
the representatives of the Chinese
custom service.
Accounts of the revolutionary at
tack on Wo Chang as given by the
refugees emphasize particularly the
massacre of the marchus in that city.
In the slaughter neither age nor sex
was regarded and it is doubtful, the
refugees say, whether single rep
resentative Of the Mnachu race was
left alive there. Similar slaughter of
the Manchus followed in Hankow
and Han Yang, when those cities
fell.
Copies Of the Central China Post,
which arrived on the Relgravia, de-
scribe the early progress of the revo-
lutionary movement. "The revclu-
tionary leaders," the paper says,
" displayed secrecy, promptitude and
thoroughness = qualities seldom
shown by the governing classes in
China. But the massacre of the Man
chus in our three cities is ghastly
blot on the reputation of the revo-
lutionaries.
Shanghai is a hot bed of reVolu-
tion and rumors Of plots and counter
plots are numberless. A formal ap-
peal issued by the revolutionary a.
gents here today says:
eve appeal for the cooperation of
cur brethren throughout the world.
Those with money should contribute
funds; those with wisdom should
devise plans; those with information
should secretly report the enemy's
condition. We expect that or move
ment will succeed. If it fails, the ten
days massacres of Hang Chow and
Kiating, when the Manchus subdued
China, will be repeated.
"It is hoped that our patriotic
brethren will respond from all
directions and with unanimous minds
will turn this universe about"
A proclamation credited to the
Revolutionary leader in Hankow is as
follows:
"I come to save the Chinese peo-
pie /. have no idea of acquiring g
personal profit OF preference but aim
cnly to pull you out of the fire and
cure your cankering malades. Hith-
erto you have been bitterly oppress-
ed. You have been drowned in sea
OF misery by a government Of aliens.
Your rulers have treated you like
bastards, not like children.
"Let whoever is animated by pa
trtotic sentiment come quickly and
join our ranks. With us he will OBJ
tain unending glory by delivering his
country from the Manchu barbaian
who hitherto has eaten Que flesh.
From now on we shall sleep in his
skin.
"Let us be mereiful even to
our enemies. Our soldiers must be
careful not to recklessly kill the
Nanchus. Let US give them an on
i.ortunity to surrender their uniform
arl weapons. If they do not theh
Yield and continue enemies of the
re,olutioary movement, they must
be killed.
The official announcement this
morning that telegraphic communi-
cation with Hankow had been inter
rupted since sunset last night, caus-
ed CONSERVATION throughout the
capital today.
The widest rumors of reverses to
the imperial arms spread like wild
fire, although no definite facts to sup
port them were available. Much
sisnifcance was attached to the fact
that the government has refrained
from issuing any official ansounce-
ment of victory in yesterdays en-
gagement with the rebels.
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