Las Vegas optic. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1908-1921, 1911-10-19
DEATH TO The. MANChUs
THEY ARE MURDERED IN GREAT
NUMBERS IN HANkow,sHAN {.
YANG AND. wu CHANG
AN APPEAL TO CHINAMEN
THE REBELS ISSUE PAMPHLET
ASKING EVERYBODY TO JOIN
IN FREE CHINA MOVE


Shanghai, Oct 19.-Six packed
steamers arrived here from Hankov
today, carrying refugees. The steam
er Belgravia was occupied exclusive
ly by foreign passengers, who were
given free accommodations at the di
rection Of the consuls in Hankow.
The ship was so crowded thai
many of the passengers slept on the
floors of the boat. Most of the for
eigners were Russians employed in
the tea factories, and Belgian iron
workers employed in the steel works,
the Han Yang arsenal and on the
Peking-Hankow railrood
The REFUGEES declare that the
whole Yang Use valley from Hankow
to Shanghai is in the hands of the
rebels, with the possible exception of
one or two of the larger cities to
which provincial officials have retired
with their available troops 1t has
been insistently stated here that Kru
Kiang, $50 miles below Hankow, is
under revolutionary control. This is
denied, however, by foreign officials /
and by the representatives of the
Chinese customs service. Accounts
of the revolutionary attack on Wu
Chang, as given by the refugees to-
day emphasize the massacre of the
Manchus there. In the slaughter
neither age nor sex was regarded and
it is doubtful, the refugees say,
whether a single representative of
the Manchu race was left alive.
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 Belgrayia, de-
scribe the early progress of the re-
volutionary movement.
"The revolutionary leaders," the
paper says, displayed secrecy,
promptitude and thoroughness, quail
ties seldom shown by the governing
classes in China. But the massacre
of the Manchus in our three cities
is a CHASTITY blow on the reputation
of the revolutfonaries"
The run on the imperial bank here
still continues, but the officials ap-
pear to have ample resources. They
are now paying out for the first time
the newly minted dragon design dol
lars from the mint at Marking, the
!, provincial capital Their large II re
serve OF Mexican dollars was ex-
hausted early in the week. Bafa
A Red Cross organization has been
started here. At Hanllow and aWu
Chang Chinese women are serving as
Red Cross volunteers for the first
time
Shanghai is a hotbed of revolution
and ,rumors of plots and counterplots
are numberless, A formal appeal is
sued by the revolutionary agents here
today, says:
! I'VE appeal for the cooperation
! Of our brethren throughout the world.
I Those with money should contribute
" funds; those with wisdom should ad-
wise plans; those with physical PROV
I ,,ess shoald mount steeds and join the
ranks: those with information should
secretly report the enemy's condition
We expect that our movement will
succeed. II dt fails, the ten days
massacres of Hang Chow and Kiatine
when thessM Manchus subdued China
win be repeated.
1T Is hoped that our patriotic
brethren will respond from all direc
tions and with unanimous hand will
turn this universe about" z
A proclamation credited to the re
volutionary leader in Hankow fol
lows: a
Il come to save the Chinese people
have no idea of acquiring persona
profit or preference, but aim only te