Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-10-19
ALL CHINA SWEPT
BY REVOLUTION
Government Concentrates Efforts
to Save PeNng.
HANK0W IN WILD DISORDER
Nearly Whole of City Destroyed by
Fire-LibeFated Criminals PiiIaae
Remaining Buildines-Seores
of Looters Executed.

FGkIuS,-IQlQa cOlQlLlOn Is crit
ical. Latest courier bulletins from
HankoB state that the regolu-
tionists already have proclaimed a
republic and that Ii Yuan Hung,
lieutenant commander Of the Sim
peFiaI new army" has been chosen
provisional president. 1t is also re
ported that rebellious troops are
marching on Wu-Chang and that a
decisive battle is probable.
China is swept to it's four corners
by the revolution. With thousands of
troops deserving to join the insured
ton almost hourly the government ap-
parently is powerless and the down
fall of the Manchu dynasty seems IL
evitable
Picking, 1000 miles away from the
rebel stronghold. in the center of the
province, is threatened with the fate of
Hankow, a large part of which has
been destroyed and where hundreds
of Manchus have been killed.
The government decided to con-
centrate its efforts to save Picking
and unprecedented military activity
within the walls of the great city is
the result. Thirty thousand troops,
who were 10 have departed for the
military maneuvers at KaitoRg, are
on the move in the streets and sew
eral other divisions of the army are
entraining for the suburbs.
That Picking can be saved is
deemed impossible. The garrison is
known to be partially disloyal and it
is feared the first uprising will be
the signal for a wholesale desertion.
which can mean nothing less than
the destruction of the city.
I-Chang and Yo-Chow have been
taken and hundreds of their Manchu
residents slain. A late dispatch re-
ports battle in progress at Chung
king and predicts the early fall of
that city.
The troops at the great military
posts at Paotingfu and Tientsin, a
few miles outside of this city. are
reported to be ready to join the in
surrectionists.
It is reported that Chansha, the
capital of Human, has been captured
and that the yamens of the viceroy
and the Tartar general have been
burned
Hankow. - Wild dfsorde prevails
here. The revolutionists are max
ing every effort to restore order
in the city which they have practical
~ destroyed Great numbers of Grim
inals who were liberated from the
prisons and the Hooligan element
are pillaging and foraging what few
buildings remain standing.
The loss of life here cannot be es-
timated. Fire has been sweeping the
city since early Thursday evening
The streets in the native quarter are
filed with dead. AS fast as the riot,
ers are captured they are executed
Scores have met death N this man
ner.
All the province of Szechuen, west
Of the Miu river, is in the hands of
the rebels The revoIutionists have
seized the provincial treasury and
mint at Szechuan, which contained
about 100000 taels.
Fifteen thousand regular Chinese
troops in the province of Szechuan
have Joined the rebels, leaving the
province with practically no govern
ment protection.
1t is reported here that the opera
tons of the rebels are being directed
by Sun Vat Sen, whom the rebels
hope to elect president Of the new
republic.
The foreigners have not been mo-
Tested as yet. A division of allied for
eign marines have laHded to protect
the foreign concessions. They are
commanded by the Japanese admiral,
Kavashima. The women and chill
dren are being taleen aboard the war
ships, Of which there are two Amer
lean. two Japanese, three British and
one German. Standing a short dis
lance from these ships is a Chinese
squadron of six battleships Several
other foreign vessels are reported en-
route here.