The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-10-20
MASSACRE
OF NANCHUS
SLAUGHTERED WITHOUT RE.
GARD TO AGE OR SEX.
NOT ONE OF RACE LEFT ALIVE
WIDEST OF RUMORS OF RE.
VERSES TO IMPERIAL ARMS.
NOT ONE OF RACE LEFT ALIVE
NO ANNOUNCEMENT OF VICTORY
Result Of Yesterdays Engagement is
Not Made Known from High Off.
Gals - Impartial Observers Are
Doubtful Of the Situation.

Shangai Oct. 19.-Six packed steam.
ers arrived here from Hankow today,
carrying refugees. The steamer Bel.
gravia, was occupied exclusively by
foreign passengers, who were given
free accommodations at the direction
of the consuls in Hankow.
The ship was so crowded that many
of the passengers slept on the floors
of the hold Most of the foreigners
were Russians employed in the tea
factories and Belgian ironworkers
employed in the steel works, the Han
Yang arsenal and on the Peking- Han
kOw railroad.
The refugees declare that the whole
Yang Use valley from Hankow to
Shanghai is in the hands of the rebels
with the exception of one or two larg-
er cities to which provincial Off
GERS have retired with their available
troops. 1t has been insistently stated
here that Kui Kiang, $50 miles below
Hankow, is under revolutionary con-
troll. This is denied, however, by for
eign officials and reports of the Chin
csc customs service. Accounts of the
revolutionary attack on WI Chang as
given by the refugees today emphasiZ.
ed particularly the massacre of the
Manchus in that city. In the slaugh-
ter. neither age nor sex was regarded
and it is doughtful, the refugees say,
whether a single representative of
the Manchu race was left alive in the
city. Similar slaughter of the Man
chus followed in Hankow and Han
Yang when those cities fell. Shang-
hal is a hotbed of revolution and ru-
mors of plots and counter plots are
numberless. A formal appeal issued
by the revolutionary agents here to-
day says:
I'VE appeal for the cooperation of
our brethren throughout the world.
Those with money should contribute
funds; those with wisdom should de-
wise plans; those with physical
strength should mount steeds and
join the ranks; those with informa-
ton should secretly report the enc
my's condition. We expect that our
movement will succeed If it fails,
the ten days massacre of Hang Chow
and Kia Ling, when the Manchus sub
dued China will be repeated.
1T is hoped that our patriotic
brethren will respond from all direc-
tions and with unanimous hands will
turn this universe about"
A proclamation credited to the
revolutionary leader in Hankow is as
| follows:
Il come to save Chinese people. |
have no idea of acquiring personal
profit but aim only to pull you out Of
the fire and cure your cankering NAL
aides. You have been bitterly OPP
pressed. You have been drowned in
a sea of misery by a government of
aliens. Your rulers have treated you
like bastards, not like children.
Let whoever is animated by pa
triotic sentiment come quickly and
join our ranks. With us he will OBJ
tain amending glory by delivering his
country from the Manchus barbarian
who hitherto has eaten our flesh.
From now We shall sleep in his skin.
yet let US be merciful even to our
enemies. Our soldiers must be care
full not to recklessly kill the Man
chus. Let US give them an opportun'
ity to surrender their uniforms and
weapons. If they do not then yield,
and continue members of the revolu-
tionary movement, they must be kill
ed"