Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-20
No Dispatches. Received
Since 6 Pm, "Wednesday.
Il Is Believed, However, Thai
The Concessions Are Sale.
Wild Rumors Reported 10 Be Caus-
Ing General Alarm.

| pcBin. Oct. 19.-Thc foreign legations
in Pehin have received no dlspdtohe
| from nanlioW since 8 o'clock last eve
| Ming. The last message from the
| American ounsul-l.snerai, Roger ;.
| Greene, said only that the fighting had
| begun. Ii is believed, however, that the
| concessions in Hankow are safe, and
that the 10 or i foreign cruisers and
Sunboats in the harbur are ample pro-
| lection. even from the Joint Chinese
army and navy.
| 1t IS hoped that all the women and
children have already been safely re-
moved from Hanlow, Tor it is feared
that the defeat of the reVolutionar1es
| might be followed by excuses by the
moh. careful Inquiries indicate that the
ncople have mere fear vi the reVolu-
tionaries than sympathy for them.
| The German legation at Peiin de-
| nied, today. the report that German
troops We're engaged in the fighting in
the streets of Hankow. The board of
| communities tons early. last evening,
| received two dispatches. One mention
| ed Siaolan, i'll Hu-Peh province as
| haVin5 been captured by the rebels;
| the other was interrupted while being
/ transmitted
\ report has reached here that I'M
| perialist troops have refused to detrain
ct Hankow. Other reports say that the
| Chinese gunboats took little part i'll
| yesterdays fighting. Their inactivity
| is explained by the fact that IA direct
| fire would have endangered their own
| troops. while a flank fire would have
| involved a bombardment over the for
| eign concessions
Signs of discomfort at Hankow arc
| subsiding after yesterdays fight The
rebels, who retreated because of short
| age of ammunition and the arrival OF
| government re-inforcements. retired
| i'm a southcrlX direction. Some of them
| re-entered the native city of HankoW,
while others. made their way towards
| WI Chang The loyal troops were not
sufficiently strons to press home any
| advantage they had gained.
| The American attaches Lieut. Col. Will
liam d. Beach and Capt. J. II. Reeves,
returned to Pekn. last night, because
they were not permitted to accompany
the troops to Hankow. They say that
the orderlfness with which the troop
trains are being sent southwark is adj
mirable The food supply seemed to be
abundant and the troops were in good
| spirits. The rapidity with which 2oev
men have been dispatched to the south
has surprised the military attaches Inc
| Chinese army. they declare. seems to
Ihaye learned the lesson of modern tao
tics well. but the fighting spirit is evi-
IDENTIFY still lacking in the race
! Reports that the infant Emperor has
! been taken, to Tien Tstn and secretly
placed il PIE foreign concessions are
groundless,
| The Japanese cruisers and gunboats in
| the Yang.fse Kiang are establishing a
wireless service from Hankow. Japanese
torpedo boats. which have arrived at Tic
| Tsin may connect with Toxic as well as
with Hanl5ow. by wireless The Amerl-
can legation has asked the Chinese gov
eminent to insure the safe transportation
| of Americans from the Pekin-Hankow
railway zone, should disorders occur
| Much alarm has been displayed all along
| the railway line owing TO the Widest
rumors, while no news has been made
public to reassure the people
Capt Reeves thinks that the Imperial
list had made great mistake in taking
field. instead of mountain guns, because
the lack of roads makes mule-borne can
non preferable.
An edict issued, today. gives Yuan Shi
| Kai as viceroy of the disaffeeted pro-
vinces authority over the war minister,
Yin Tschang, who is now serving as
general in the field.
| A strict censorship was established, to-
day, on all trans-provincial messages re
| garding military movements and also on
all code messages except consular aho
legation dispatches. Even the legations
are deprived of news by the interruption
Of the wires and there is anxiety De
cause the last message received descrlb-
ed the continuance of dcsuitory hrlnG'
with rebel renforcements crossing the
| river. According to consular dispatch,
, after crossing from Han Yang on tn
| night of Oct. H. the rebels evidently
marched all night long in northeasterlE
direction around the foreign concessions
and attacked the Imperialists shortly att
er daybreak at their camp neer the rail
way. Dispatches from Shanghai, asking
Pekin for news, say that the telegraph
wires from Hankow to Shanghai are also
cut Several gunboats carry wireless
, systems. which should be working be-
, tween Hankow and Shanghai.
1t is expected that Imperial troop
trains are arriving frequently behind
? I1ankow. The foreign railway manage
! ment of the Hankow-Pekn line claim
that ii succeeded in withdrawing all but
a single locomotive before the rebels
. crossed from WI Chang and Han Yang
to Hankow
Officials of the Chinese foreign board
lreterate that the recapture of WI Chang
is only matter of days. The attitude of
the Chinese here towards foreigners can
not be criticized, and not the slightest
danger is anticipated.
. The province of Sze-Chen continues 70
be isolated There has been no news
from that quarter in several days
Shanghai, oct 19.-six packets ar