The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-09-14
HECK REBELS
HI TEMP TING TO
|SACk CHENG- TU
||rllteen Hundred Chinese
Regulars Nov Down Hosts
Outside Walls of
Ancient City.
IsSIONARIES ARE
BROUGHT TO BE SAFE
|oreigners Now Confident
That Viceroy Is Able to
Suppress Uprising in
the Province.

|EKIN. Sept. --latest advices re-
cajyed by the Chinese foreign
hoard and the foreign legations
indicate that ChenG-Tu. capital of
d SEE -Chuen province. is under
that most. il not all the mission
arc Inside the walls and that the
Ajs rarrisoned by 1900 troops. who
had several engagements with the
'glng forces.
dispatch from the prefect of Tsu-
4 dated September IL says that the
Ds were firing upon the rebels from
'Cheng-Tu walls and that the be-
rs had lost many men. The be-
Is held there that the garrison is
Bic OF resisting the attacks of any
bcr OF organized rebels from the out
fTsu-Chau is seventy-fve miles from
lg-Tu.
|e Canadian Methodist compound
In the city has open spaces around
own walls II is believed that the
gners nave taken refuge within this
npund, which is considered the
l2est and The most easily defended,
h missionaries who have been IN
|er riots In Cheng-Tu say that what
Chinese troops were dispatched 10
b the mission would he stationed
'de line compound and would not be
rhted 10 get within the gates.
plies Important,
|lether the foreigners and the natives
r the walls are prepared 10 endure
e8e IL not knawn The question Of
Hes is all Important and 1t is PROB
FIrom past experiences. that the mis-
<rles have taken precautions against
- contingency. The missionaries,
f!eT. have no weapons, unless they
reen supplied by the viccroy.
'ery effort Is being made 10 commu-
a With Cbeug-Tu. hut so far there
oeen 10 movement TO relieve the
plsne-s here seem confident Of the
" OF the viceroy 10 suppress the
- The southern section OF SEE
% continues loyal. although the ma
symDatnze with the opponents OF
~ construction. All gatherings in
q IN sympathy with the revolutionary
|pent IN Sze-Chuen have been dis
d by the police,
uiSpalch from Kia -Ting-Fu. south
'eng.Tu, says that foreign mission
alationed there have left for Yang
fhese included three men and
wives and IL woman doctor. The
gnnooets have been unable tc
7ed above Sui~Fu.
>cked on All Sides.
[NDON, Sept l3.-A news dispatcl,
~ mere today from -Chau says
tns protect OF police there has at
"a 10 communicate with Cheng-TU
ssehesrS. but that the latter were
70 get through the lines OF rioters
"e,e attacking the city at foul
troops: the dispatch adds. line
'ailS OF Cheus-Tu, defending The
shan Is seventy-fiye miles south.
SnenS Tu. the capital of thr
Sy oi SIC Chuen, in which district
rinon has occurred. and Tsu- Chat
III inc capital than any other poinr
shich news OF the rebellion ha.
ssnt TO the outside word since Sep.
IL Is about halfway betwce,
~ and Sui Fu. where the British
e were reported as having arrived
Nlernoon the foreign office re
d0vlces from the British consu
dispatched under date o
=; They state that there wa
rs within the walls Of Cheng II
Fsrmber I. when some persons wHr,
ain Others wounded, both anon;
opu'auon and soldiers who engaged
g.ner in tho streets. The rebels
sshy repulsed and the gates OF tn,
,u1sen' 1"' The shops were shut rp. Or
~wing day roughs from the sub
t,@ked naked the city gates. but wer,
aavlces add that the American an'
residents Of Chene- -Tu who dl,
rnss INC city on September still
ru IN the capital when the dis
ras sent. as the governor genera
20 permit them To leave on Sep
s, owing to the presence OF th
putside the walls
French missionaries had decide
taih IN The city. The mail servic
~ 'rom Cheng-Tu has been inter