The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-19
OUT OF HANKOW
Six Steamers Full of Refugees
Arrive at Shanghai.
Say Whole Yang Use Valley Is
Held by Rebels.
MASSACRE OF MANCHUS
Reported That the Race IsWfDed
Out.
Not Even Women and Children
Are Spared.
u MASSACRE OF MANCHUS

Shanghai, Oct. 19.-Six packed steam
ers arrived here from Hankow today
carrying refugees. The steamer Bel
graYla was occupied exclusively by for
elsn passengers who were given free
accommodation at the direction of tie
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 fac
tories and Belgian iron workers employ
ed in the steel works, the Han Yarg
arsenal and on the Peking-Hanko- ;
railway. The refugees declare that the
WnOle Yang-TSe valley from HankOW
to Shanghai is in the hands of the reb-
els, with the possible exception of 1ne
or two of the larger cities to which
provincial officials have retired with
their available troops 1t has been m
slstently stated here that Kiu Kiang.
$50 miles below F-ankow, is under reyo-
lutionary rule. 1t is denied. however
py Foreign officials and by the repre-
sentatiVeS of the Chinese customs ser
wee Accounts of the revolutionary
attack on Wu Chang as given by the
refugees today emphasize particularly
the massacre of the Manchus in that
city. IL the slaughter neither age nor
sex were regarded, ana it is doubtful
the refugees say, whether a single rep
resentative Of Manchu race was left
alive there.
Similar slaughter of the Manchus
followed in Hankow and Han Yang
when those cities fell
Massacre Blot.
Copies of the Central China Post,
which arrived on the Belgravia, de-
scribe the early progress of the revo-
lutlonary movement. THE revolution
ary leaders" the paper says display
ed secrecy. proinptitude and thorough
ness-QuaHtieS seldom shown by the
governing classes in China But she
massacre of the Manchus in our three
cities IS q ghaStly blot on the reputation
of the revolutionaries. The run on the
Imperial bank here still continues but
the officials appear to have ample re-
sources They are now paying out Tor
the first time the newly ninted dragon
design dollars from the mint at Nank-
ing, the provincial capital Their large
reserve Of Mexican dollars was com
pletely Cxha by the demand early
in the week. A Red Cross organization
had been started here. AT hanIuw ana
as Red Cross volunteers for the first
time in history.
Shanghai Hotbcd.
Shanghai is hotbed of revolution
and rumors of plots and counterplots
are mum berless. A formal appeal is
sued by the revolutionary agents here
today says:
I'VE appeal for the cooperation Of
our brethren throughout the world.
Those with money should contrih1te
funds; those with wisdom should de-
wise plans; those with physical Prov
esS should mount steeds and Join the
ranks: those with information should
secretly represent the enemy's con-
dition. We expect our movement will
succeed. If it fails. the ten days mas
sacres of Chang Chow and Efating
when the Manchus subdued China viii
be repeated.
TT is hoped that our patriotic
brethren will respond from all direc-
tions and with unanim Gus hands will
turn this universe about"
A proclamation credited to the revo-
lutionary leader in HankoW is as fol-
lows:
4 come to save the Chinese people.