The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1911-10-20
BLOODY FRENZY
SEIZES REBELS
Neither Age Nor Sex Spared in
Wholesale Execution of Rev
olutionary Foes.
PEKIN Is ALARMED
OVER LACK OF NEWS
Fighting Renewed Between the
Opposing Forces, but the Re
suit Il Unknown.

SHANGHAI. Oct. is-Arrivals
from Hankow report that 800 Man
chus were massacred. To make sure
OF tho Identity os their victims the
rebels took advantage OF the slight
difference In the Chinese and Mauchu
pronunciations. When "a suspect was
taken he was ordered to count, and
he crucial test was his pronuncia,
lion or the numeral SIX. which In Chi.
nese is iiushiiiu
Neither Age Nor Ser Was Spared.
The wharfs hero are crowded with
persons awaiting the arrival OF steam
ers and anxious "a to the fate of
friends IN tho disturbed district.
Tho Viceroy OF Nanking tslesrAphs
10 ths Shanghai tacti that the former
city In as quiet as usual
The government has cancelled the
order for ak steamers OF tho China
herchants' Navigation Company to
proceed to Tien-Tsin for the trAns-
port OF troops up the Yang.tse- Klang.
AZ In stated that all tho imperial
troops required will be able 20 reach
Hankow moro expeditiously by the
railway. which Is absolutely In the
hands OF the government
All kilograms from the Interior are
censored and consequently there are
eonnfcting reports as TO the results
" tho battle OF Hankos yesterday.
muat be- remembered that tels-
~ ms TO Peking pass through the
htnc- of the ...YS..alists, while mes
ages for Shanghai are sent by way
OF KiuKianK. which is In the hands
of the rebel sympathizers.
The kiangnan arsenal near here is
guarded by 1000 troops, but a rising
y not expected.
PEKIsG. Oct. ie.-The foreign Iega.
lions In Peking have received no dis
Watches from Hankow since six
o'clock last evening. Tho last messag.
rom American Consul General Roger
;. Greene stated only that the lighting
had begun. II Is believed. however,
hat tho concessions In Hankow are
safe. and that the ten or twelve for
eign cruisers and gunboats In the har-
bor are ample protection even from
The Joint Chinese army and navy
But II will be impossible TO prevent
stray shells from threatening foreign
ers or confiagrations and loOting by
the rabble. II would be difficult TO
narrow streets cut them on from the
dcnsely packed Chinese city
The German legation az Pcking to-
lay denied the report that German
troops had been engaged In the fight.
ing In the streets OF Hankow
Another city Falls.
Siaekin. In Hu-Peh province. has
been captured by rebels
report has reached here that i'm.
perial troops have refused 10 detrain
al HankoW. u is thought that both
armics are In danger ~ wholesale dis
~-ffectiOn.
Reports that the infant emperor has
been taken To Iien Tsln and secretly
placed I'm the foreign concessions are
groundlcss.
The Japanese cruiser and gunboats
! IN the Yang Use Kiaug are establish.
ng a wireless service from Hantov
japanese torpedo boats now az Tien
rsin may connect with Toxic. as we'll
~ with Hankow. by wireless. The
American legation has asked the
chinese government to insure the safe
transportation of Americans FROM
The Pcking iInnkow railway zone
should disorders develop.
Lieutenant Colonel Beach in dc
scribing conditions in u.Pch. says
there is good crossing on the Yang
Tse Ave miler north nf Wu.Chang
aud " should not be- difficult for the
tcOstinu.d on main p-s.J