The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-10-21
NONE LEFT ALIVE;
The Chinese Spare Neither Age Nor Sex
in Massacre Of Manehus
THE DEAD ARE PILED UP

CONSERVATION Resigned at the Capi''
tol All Day Thursday, and he1u-
oees from the Fighting Zone Tell
90 Horrors of Chinese Revolutions
,t Hankow and War Chang.
A cablegram from Shanghai,
China, says six packed steamers ar
rived here from Hankow today car
rying refugees. The steamer Belgra-
via was occupied exclusively by FOR
eign passengers who were given free
accommodation at the directions OF
the consul in Hankow. The ship was
so crowded that mnay of the pas
sengers slept on the floor of the
hold. Most of the foreigners were
Russians employed in the tea 'facto-
ries and Belgian iron workers, en-
ployed in the steel works, the Han
Yang arsenal and on the Peking-
Hankow Railway.
The refugees declare that the whole
Yang Tse Valley, from Hankow to
Shanghai, is in the hands of the relr-
els with the possible exception Of one
or two OF the larger cities TO which
provincial officials have retired with
their available troops. 1t has been In
, sistently stated here that Niu Kiang,
IS miles below Hankow, is under
revolutionary control This is denied,
however, by foreign officials and by
the representatives of the Chinese
custom service.
Accounts of the revolutionary at
tack on Wo Chang as given by the
refugees emphasize particularly the
massacre of the manchus in that city.
In the slaughter neither age nor sex
was regarded and it is doubtful, the
refugees say, whether single rep
resentative of the MnachI race was
left alive there. Similar slaughter Of
the Manchus followed in Hankow
and Han Yang, when those cities
fell.
Copies of the Central China Post,
which arrived on the Belgravi.., de-
scribe the early progress of the revo-
lutionary movement 1.-The reyolu-
tionary leaders," the paper says,
displayed secrecy, promptitude and
thoroughness - qualities seldom
shown by the governing classes in
China. But the massacre of the Man.
chus In cur three cities is a chastity
blot on the reputation of the reyo-
lutionaries.
Shanghai Is hot bed of reyolu-
tion and rumors of plots and counter
plots are numberless. A formal ap-
peal issued by the revolutionary a.
gents here today says:
we appeal for the cooperation of
cur brethren throughout the world.
Ihose with money should contribute
funds; those with wisdom should
devise plans; those with information
should secretly report the enemy's
condition. We expect that our move
ment will succeed. If it fails, the ten
days massacres OF Hang, Chow and
kiating, when the NIanchus subdued
China, will be repeated.
1T is hoped that our patriotic
brethren will respond from all
directions and with unanimous minds
will turn this universe about"
A proclamation credited to the
Revolutionary leader in Hankow is az
follows:
Il come to save the Chinese peo-
pie | have no idea of acquiring
personal profit or preference but aim
cnly to pull you out OF the fire and
cure your cankeriDg maladies. Hith-
erto you have beel bitterly oppress-
ed. You have been drowned in a sea
OF misery by government of aliens.
Your rulers have treated you like
bastardS, not like children.
Let whoever is animated by pa-
triotic sentiment come quickly and
join our ranks. With us he will OBJ
tain unending glory by delivering his
country from the Manchu barbaian
who hitherto has eaten our flesh.
From now on we shall sleep in his
skin.
Let us be merciful even to
our enemies. Our soldiers must be
careful not to recklessly kill the
Mdnchus. Let us give them an op.
! i'o"tunity to surrender their uniform
ard weapons. If they do not then
yield and Continue enemies of the
rc\olutioary movement, they must
hi killed.
The official announcement this
morning that telegraphic communal
cation with Hankow had been inter-
rupted since sunset last night, caus-
ed consternation throughout the
capital today.
The widest rumors of reverses to
the imperial arms spread like wild
fire, although no definite facts to sup
port them were available. Much
significance was attached to the fact
that the government has refrained
! from issuing any official anseunce-
ment Of a victory in yesterdays en-
gagement with the rebels.