The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-10
TELLS OF BATTLE
Kansas Visitor Forced to Flee
From Chinese Home.
DR.. Frank Aliens Sympathy Is
With Rebels.
IN WESTERN CHINA
He Says People Are Happy and
Enlightened.
Present War.
IN WESTERN CHINA

Hutchinson, Kan, Jan. 10.-Driven
from his Chinese home by the civil
war which is now raging in that
country, DR.. Frank F. Allan. a sur
geon connected with a mission station
near Cheng Tu, West China, and fam
ny have arrived in Hutchinson.
DR.. and Mrs. Allan and their three
children are visiting here with their
brother-in-law.
Foreigners are not in any danger
from the revolutfonists." explained DR..
Allan '-On the contrary the Chinese
Fsvoluttontgts are very anxious to re-
tain the good Will of the foreigners.
But there are many bands Of robbers
and outlaws, who take advantage of
times of disorder, and the leaders Of
the revolutionary party. who were in
control in our section, notified the
ue''
DIR. Allan and family were stationed
Tar In the interior of western China
1000 miles from the coast, up the
Yang-tse river, near the capital of
Cheng-Tu- When the order came for
al foreigners to leave, 200 of them as
sembled In one party from the central
province, at Chunk-Ktng, on Novem-
Der 9 and under escort of a British
gunboat proceeded down the Yang-tse
river, 1000 miles.
They See Real Fighting.
There are no railroads in West
China" DR.. Allan explained I'VE
have to travel by boat, mainly by row.
ing and towing in Chinese rowboats.
I'VE ran into actual fighting at
HRnkow, where there was a battle
fought and good deal of fighting
OF HankOw had been entirely burned.
Ranlzin was being stormed as we pass
ed through, and we could see the
armies fighting near the city.
The city's Notifications were be-
ing bonbarded, and the heavy guns
were booming throughout our short
stay there We were in no danger,
being under the protection of the Brit
4sh gunboat-"
Dr.. ana Mrs. Allen have been sta
toned in West China for over five
years, and this is their first furlough
and first visit home in that time. so
they are naturally glad of the oppor-
tunity to return to America
Their home is in Ontario, and they
will go on there after q short visit in
Hutchinson.
His Sympathy for Rebels.
Naturally DR.. Allans sympathy is
inclined toward the revolutionists. al
though he is dubious about the ability
OF the new Chinese republic to main
tain itself.
West China has not been heard
FROM" he remarked West China is
a country by itself, as large as the
United States, and with ninety million
Inhabitants. about as many as the
United States.
This was formerly an independent
kingdom and under the leadership of
the students and more educated peo-
pie. they have been only too glad to
throw off the yoke of the Manchu dy-
nasty. But I question whether they
viii be willing to form a part of the
new Chinese republic at Nankin. 1t
Is more likely that a separate govern
ment, either a monarchy or republic,
under their own ruler. will be estab-
lfshed in West China
College Students Started It.
Lt was the college students who real
~ started the rebellion that has led
20 the downfall of the Chinese en-
ptre, according to Dr.. Allan.
The trouble began when the Anti
Railroad league was formed to op-
pose the terms of the railroad loan
made by the government" he explain
ed. The college students ard better
educated people, who keep posted on
political matters, were dissatisfied with
the way this loan was handled; the
people generally were dissatisfied
with the Manchu dynasty. and they
were ready to rebel
TT Is not an anti-foreign movement,