Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-05-05
CHINESE REBELS
TAKE FIVE TOWNS
Halt Of Kwangtung Province
Given Over to Anarchy.
DEAD LIE IN CITY STREETS
Canton Highways Are Red With Blood
and Hundreds Have Been Slain.
Troops Are Powerless.

Troops Are Powerless.
Rebellion, brigandage and anarchy
are laying waste the western half of
the province of Kwang Tung, China.
The tloops loyal to the government are
fighting desperately to crush the up
rising, the seriousness of which is re-
vealed in further dispatches from
Canton. Five towns have fallen before
the rebels and have been pillaged.
WI Sum, who has adopted the dress
of western countries, is the leader OF
the revolt against the Manchu dynas-
ty. The brigand chief, LUX, of Shun-
TAX, is at the head of horde of out
murder. Following the standards of
these two men are anarchist groups, to
whose purpose the present outbreak
lends itself most advantageously
These combined forces have thrown
themselves with fanatical disregard of
their own lives against the troops, and
since the first outbreak Thursday
dition is rife among certain of the
troops, and it is feared that the dis
affected soldiers will desert their Off
GERS if the revolters appear to have
the upper hand.
Official advices and the refugees ar
irving from Canton confirm the SIMS.
ter reports. Bodies of the slain lie in
the streets of the city. Famine prices
are asked for foodstuffs, and the shops
generally are closed. In the panic
there have been few attempts to bury
the dead.
The revolters have withdrawn to
great extent from Canton and are de-
vastating the country to the west
along the West river. Before falling
back they fought the troops from
street to street, many persons being
killed. They attacked the provisional
arsenal and, being repulsed, gathered
in an immense rice store, which they
barricaded with bags of rice. From
the building they threw bombs into the
attacking troops and were only dis.
lodged when the building was set on
fire. Many of the revolters escaped,
but thirty or more died in the flames,
while others killed themselves to avoid
capture.
While the fighting was progressing
in the streets, Chinese gunboats pa
trolling the West river fired into sew
eral parties of rebels, slaughtering 200
of them. Retreating to the country
side the revolutionaries attacked and
captured Sam Shut, thirty miles west
of Canton, and murdered the prefect
The troops were put to flight and the
rebels moved on to Wen Chow and
Woo Chow, both of which towns they
took after slight resistance. Luk's bri.
gands, following in their wake, looted
the shops of the three towns
The triumphant sweep of the revo-
lutionaries continued westward along
the West river, and reports from that
district say that the movement Is
spreading and that the revolutionaries
are numbering and pillaging in other
places
The revolutionists are cutting the
telegraph wires throughout the scene
of their operations, and communica.
tion between Canton with points to
the north and west is generally inter,
rupted Traffic on the Chinese section
of the railway leading north from Can.
ton has been suspended
A report that Shamien, the foreign
concession above Canton, had been
invaded lacks confirmation The Amer
ican gunboat Wilmington has the
place under her guns