New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-09-14
NENG-TU UNDER SIEGE
Missionaries Believed Safe With
in the Walls There.
TROOPS FIRE ON RAB3LE
roreigners Confident That Vice.
row Will Suppress Uprising
Rebels. Routed.

roting. sent l2-Latest advices received
:. RE Chinese Foreign Board and the for
.,r legations indicate that Cheng-tu, can't
- At szc-Chuan Province is under siege
-, most II not all. the missionaries are
,-.,se the walls and that The city is gar
.,sored by 100 troops, Who have had sew
ii engagements with the besieginc
forces.
dspatch from the Irefect OF Tsu-
IAN which lies about seventv-fve miles
d ,he southeast % Chcng-td. dated Sep
,.,,bs- e.. said that the troops were fir
~ mon the rebels from the Cheng-tu
r.rs and that the besiegers had lost many
-, The belief is held there that the
) ,,-rson is CAPABLE Of resisting the attacks
- any number Of organized rebels from
ne outside
rre Canadian Methodist compound
r-.hir The city. has open spaces around
+. owl walls II IS believed that the for
.s-e~s have taken refuge within this
.omrourd. which is considered the strong
,st and the most easily defended. PekIng
missionaries who have been fin former
riots az Cheng-tu say that whatever Chi
rsse troops were dispatched 20 guard the
mission would be stationed outside the
compound and would not be permitted,
rrsar any circumstances, 70 get within the
rtss
Whether the foreigners and The natives
inside the walls are prepared 10 endure
siege Is no, known The question az sup
-Ees is on a'l-important one. and il IS
probable In view Of past experiences, that
RE Missionaries have taken precautions
against such a contingency. The m ission-
sr'es however. possess no weapons. unless
.hey have been supplied by tire Viceroy.
Every effort IS te'ng made 70 ccmmunicat e
with Cherg-tu. but 50 far there has been
20 mrvemsnt % relieve the city.
Foreigners here seem confident Of III,
.shty Of the Viceroy 10 suppress the up
rarc The southern portion OF the SEE
Chuan continues loyal although the ratves
wmpathz- with the opponents OF the rail
way construction. All gatherings in Pekng
b. sympathy with the revolutionary move
nent in Sze-Chusn have been dispersed b.
tie police.
A dispatch from Kia-ting IN, 10 The south
Of Chens III. says that the foreign mis-
sonsries stationed there have departed for
The Yarg-tse These included three men
ard their wives and a woman doctor The
iorsign eyrtoats have been unable 70 pro
tssd above Sui-fu.
telegram received to-day from the
British Consul az Cheng-tu, dated Septem-
Der ? and brought through the besieging
rstble cv a messenger, says that the Vice
Roy deemed the departure or the mission
ares from Cheng-tu as undesirable and
Therefore detained five boatIoads which
Fere starting
Hank5w. Sept. 13.-The native press pub
5shes a report that the V1ceroy's Yamen
a. Ch-ng-tu has been DESTROYED and that
many rioters have been killed II is re-
ported also that the foreigners have gone
30 Churs-king under escort
The situation is considered grave. The
-l-ercv has about two thousand troops at
cha-g-tu and eight thousand altogether. in
rae province. Reinforcsments cannot reach
~hers-tu in less than a month.
washington. sept 13-The American
swadron. headed by the cruiser New Or
bans, which has been making its way up
ne Yangtse River from Shanghai 10
-ort
IF Marking. and Admiral Murdoch has
,&pt4..on, trans
rrn. his f.r ..~ -nst purpose from Che
--. N-v Or'e.us while be
originally intended that these deep draft
..... .8 Cd. Na.Hlns. tn- ad-
c.rai has now changed his plan and viii
r--eed with his. squadron about 80 miles
further Up the river 20 Hank3w, which
parks the limit Of deep water navigation.
This movement is made possible by tho
-.-- tro. fro vongtee is greatly swollen
tv the hood. the greatest since 1899