Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1911-10-23
CHINESE COWARD
KILLS HIMSELF
Reign of Terror Feared In
Nanking and Other In
land Cities
COOLIES CUTTING OFF QUEUES
BARRIERS Are Working Overtime
Since Recent Rebel
Proclamation.

(By Special Leased Wire to New Mexican)
WI HUI, Province of Ngan Hwei,
China, Oct. pa Japanese firm at
Marking telegraphs today that the
gates of that city have been closed
and no one is allowed to enter except
a fter close examination.
The public is panic stricken and an
exodus IS under way. Already ten per
cent of the population of Marking has
left.
Foreign war vessels are passing
here daily, proceeding up the river.
Starving Crowds May Loot.
Chin Kiang, Province of Kiang, Su,
China, Oct. 23.-Conditlons here are
serious. The well-to-do fear looting
on the part of the famine-striken pop
ulation. The large Manchu settlement
is in panic.
Germany Will Not Intervene.
Berlin, Oct. 23.-The German for.
eign Office received inquiries today
from the United States government
regarding the situation in China. Ger
many believes that the situation does
not call for international action.
China Can't Get Loan.
London Oct. 23.-The negotiations
between China and the four groups of
bankers who arranged the currency re-
form loan of $5O,0OO,OOO have been
suspended. The international bankers
t)oncerneG recently refused China s
request for temporary loan of $3,OOO,.
600 for it's war fund.
Rebels Take Two Capitals.
Shanghai, China, Oct. 2s.-The oc.
cupation by revolutionists of two
more important southern cities, Chang
/ Sha, and Nan Chang, was announced
in dispatches which reached here
early today. Chang Sha is the capital
of Human and Nan Chang is the capi'
tai of Kiangsi.
Their capture, therefore, delivers
into revolutionary hands, the local
governments of two important prov
inces, thereby more than doubling
the territory in which the rebels are
masters.
Four Rebel Provinces.
| Four of China's eighteen provinces
now are regarded as under revolu
tionary influence-Sze Chuen, where
the movement started; HUI Peh, OF
which WI Chang is the capital, Hun
an and Kiangsi.
| The fall of Marking, where the
garrison is regarded as siding with
the revolutionaries, would deliver to
them the viceroyal government o1
two more provinces, Kiang su and
Sgan Hwei
Coward Commits Suicide.
San Francisco, Calf, oct. 23.-
News was received here today by the
Chung Sal Vat Po that General Chang
Piao of the imperial troops, who was
sentenced to death for cowardice, has
committed suicide. Viceroy Jul
Cheng of HUI Peh and Human provinc-
es escaped before he could be punished
for similar offense.
Army is Being Disarmed.
In Marking, the viceroy is disarm
ing the new army in fear of treach'
cry, retaining their arms and mill.
j tary supplies while sending them tc
stations in the loyal provinces. The
finding Of thirteen cases Of dynamite
there yesterday gave the government
great alarm.
Cutting OFF Their Queues.
Chinese BARRIERS here have been
working overtime cutting queues. The
queu cutting proclamation of the rev
olutionists has been posted boldly al
the entrance to the imperial consulate
here. To part with their ancien
badge of distinction evidently wen
hard with some of the older coolies.
Neutrality.
| Secretary Tong King Chong of thu
Chinese National Association Ieceiv
ed letter today from Charles Hilles
secretary to President Taft, acknowl
eding the receipt of the telegram ask
ing for the good offices Of the United
States in preserving the neutrality O
lother nations during the war. Secre
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