The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-03
|MPER|AL|STS ARE BEYOND CONTROL; MASSACRE REBELS May Handicap Negotiations of Yuan Shi Kai Se-
 riously
EXODUS FROM CITY OF
 PEKING CONTINUES
War Board Declines To Form a Red Cross Association-Diplo Body Will Meet Today To
 Consider Situation


 natives at Hankow by imperialist troops | intelligence of which reached both tn | war board and the German legation, ma, prove a serious hindrance to the peac' neg citations which Yuan Shi kai ha' Teen attempting to inaugurate with th' rebel leaders The imperialists apparent " have got beyond control and further | fighting IS feared. In such case i will be difficult to protect the foreign con sessions, as they are divided from tht native city by streets only 50 or 60 fee wide.
 | It is reported that the war board a Picking has declined to accept the sug l gestion of foreign doctors to form Rec | Cross society on the lines of the Geneva convention, the board seeming to feel that the rebels do not deserve humane treat. | 1nent. The massacre. according to some ad- vices. began before the departure Of Gen l Yin Tchang.
 Exodus From Picking Continues
 The exodus from Picking continues the doors of many shops, well as pri- yate houses being closed in anticipation | of a massacre. The American mission- aries, who have had conference with the legation, have decided that few sol diers placed in each of the four large mission compounds would suffice to pre- vent ordinary outiawry and footing. which is expected to begin any night Should there be general outbreak. however. | 4,Ir ft, l,a Methodist mission, which is immediately east of the legation quarter and easily de- fended.
 The diplomatic body meets tomorrow | to reconsider the question of allowing the | Chinese troops to enter Tien Tsin, a consul there having made serious objec- tlon.
 An official dispatch from shih kia Tai. Shan S IKoyince. says. that regiment of Shan S troops, which had been dfs- patched to,.assist the imperialists, has mutnied.
 | The mutineers killed their hrigadier general and then bombarded Manchu | city massacring 1000 Manchus, including the governor and his family. General lin Tchang who until a few days ago was commander of the imperial forces at l Hankow returned here tonight. There was great crowd at the station at the time of his arrival but no demonstra- ton occurred.
 It is understood that the national as- sembly is showing determined opposition to the foreign loan for which arrange ments already have been made, arguing such loan is unnecessary as many mii- | T 1-,. ..ft Letters dated October 20 and 3C from press correspondents with the Im- perialst army at Hankow say that in the struggle for the possession of that city there was hand to hand fighting in the streets, the quarters being too close for shooting. The rebels, mostly raw recruits, not understanding the use of rifles were driven back with much slaughter, their dead piling up on the quay The casualties among the I'm peralists for two days. October 2S and 29, were killed and 1eO wounded. The reb- elG lost about 700 killed or wounded.
 Fighting Not Serious
 The fighting, continues the corresponds ents for the last three nights was not serious. The rebels had the advantage in number of guns but their shells did not explode. The Imperialists had the ad- vantage III lTOOpS put they were pOOllN provisioned. No prisoners were taken. Rebels captured alive were shot or de- capitated
 It is learned that the most barbariuus outrages were perpetrated on innocent persons in the villages. An officer of Yin Tchangs staff explained that the out rages were committed by only 45 men of the Hupeh division.
 General Yin Tchang refused permis- sion to the correspondents to proceed to the front and placed them under the strictest surveillance.
 At headquarters all telegrams undergo strictest censorship.
 The stan of officers, says the corre- spondent, are quartered in an express train with engine attached for immediate seivice. The chief of staff Colonel Yin, is now at the front, directing operations. The general staff consists mostly of Ger man and Japanese trained men. but the campaign does not reflect much credit upon them, as they are seemingly iynor ant of the country. The soldiers are not hothere ed by their officers and do as they please. Coming from the northern pro- vinoas, they have no sympathy with tho rebels. ~ Sll {.
 IIior to the opening of operations on October 27. Gen. Yin Tchlng told the re- spective commanders that the advance must be made and rewards were offered to the soldiers for every gun captured. The advance was slow because the im- peiialists had to wade through pools os water over much of the distance. The reDels. who at first numbered not more than 1000, shot from the house tops until compelled to retire. the shells from the waishps setting the houses on fire.
 Gen. Wou Chou Yuen, commanding the thn1 brigade, and Gen. Wong Yin Chat. commanding the fourth division, stood hraveiy holding revolvers and shooting the soldiers who refused to fight.
 Rebels Driven Back
 Dispatches received in Picking tonight So the rebels occupied Chin Hsin Sen Monday last, but on the following day the in,perialists drove them to Liang Tse Kwang, an impregnable pass in the noun tamous country The rebels have torn up 8 half mile stretch of railway and blocked tne tunnel and now hold the pass with a small body of men.
 The governments plans for bringing about peace moved forward rapidly to- day, with the throne and the national assembly working together. The throne ordered Yuan Shi Kai, the new premier. to return immediately to Peking and simultaneously the national assembly, in its official capacity telegraphed General Ii Yuen Heng, leader of the revolutionists, requesting him to sus- pend hostilities pending the result of