Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1911-10-25
CHINESE REBELS
ARE WINNERS
Another Decisive Victory Is
Placed to Their
Credit
IMPERIAL TROOPS CUT OFF
The Government Seems to Have
Made a Mysterious Loan


1OllAO"lSiSs
(By Special Leased Wire to New MeXican)
San Francisco, Calf, Oct. 25.-Advi-
ces of an important and perhaps deci-
ded rebel victory over the main body
OF the imperial army on the mountain
passes separating HUI Peh and Human
provinces were received here today
by the Chinese rec Press. The mes
sage, which came from Hong Kong,
said that General Yin Tchang in com
mand of the 21,0O0 royalist troops
with $50 guns was driven back by
General Lii Yuen Hung with 10000 re-
bells. The defeated army at last re-
ports was entrenching itself in the
city of WI Sing Kwan.
China Flush With Money.
Washington, D. c., Oct. 25.-The
Chinese government has withdrawn
it's request for permission to postpone
payment of the current installment of
the Boxer indemnity. This is taken
to indicate China's success in obtain
ing large loan from some secret
source OF effecting an arrangement
with the revolutionists for the re-es.
tablishment of order.
Shanghai, China, Oct 25.-The cap
ture of Chang Chow by the revolu-
tionists was announced in dispatches
which reached here today. From a
strategetic point of view, this city
should prove of great value to the
rebels. 1t is the junction of Kai Fung
and Peking Hankow railroads and is
located 250 miles north of Hankow.
Imperial Troops Cut Off.
Its capture apparently cut off from
all the Imperial troops now gathered
around Hankow and WI Chang.
Todays news from the lower Yang
! Use Valley was all discouraging to the
government. With Kfu Kiang in un.
disputed possession of rebels, the I'm
perial fleet has retreated on down the
river, some of the vessels being re-
ported as far eastward as Wu Hu.
| Conditions are ominous, not only in
Wu Hu, but also in Marking. Most Of
i the Manchu officials have left these
two cities and are crowding into
Shanghai.
Big Cities in Panic.
The Taotai of Shanghai today be.
came SO alarmed over the possibility
OF secession of the native city to ,.e
rebels that he removed his house.
hold to the foreign settlement. The
Taotai of Nanking has also put him.
self under the same protection. The
city OF Su Cnow is in panic owing to
the revolutionary threats of five thou
sand weavers, whose wages have not
been paid for long time.
kiu kiang Rebel Capital.
Revolutionary agents here announced
today that the insurgents expect to
establish their headquarters at XIII
Kiang, which will probably be the
revolutionary capital.
1t is unquestionably a fact that the
entire Yang Use region and most of
southern Chinas as well is completely
revolutionary in sentiment All the
cities have been taken over by the
rebels in the past few days, have been
captured almost without resistance.
Manchu Officials Killed.
The local government has Surrend.
cred quietly and rebel appointees have
taken their places with little stir. A
| few Manchu officials have been killed
but most of them joined the rebel for
ces.
Retails of the transfer of Chang Sha
to the revolutionists were reported to
the telegraph headquarters hare by
the operator in that city.
Polite Notification.
! please take notice." he said, that
the insurgents have duly occupied tbs
office"
He said that he himself had Joined
the revolItionists. The declared in.
tention of the leaders, he added, was
to gradually take over city after city,
liking the various centers already in
their possession and thus push one
to Shanghai. They planned, he said,
to re-establish the telegraph lines as
soon as possible and permit business
to continue, under provisional gov
ernment, which they declared would
have the sympathy and support OF the
entire country south of the Yang Use.
Foreign Warships Arrive.
Trade conditions in Shanghai have
improved somewhat. The American
warships have not yet succeeded in
getting any effective results from
their wireless apparatus. The Ger
man vessels, however, are getting a
few messages through the neighbor
hood of Hankow. The American cruis.
er Albany is anchored off Shanghai
awaiting the arrival of Rear Admiral
Murdock, who is expected on Novem
ber 2. The New Orleans is still at
Marking.
10000 Jap Troops.
/ A report that 10000 Japanese troops
have arrived at Mukden, Manchuria
is causing uneasiness among the sup
porters of the revolution who believe
that Japan is about to aid the Manchu
| government.
The Japanese authorities explain
that II such a movement has been
made In Manchuria the only purpose
is to protect japanese residents, their
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