Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-07-09
a REIGN OF
MARKS CHIN


Going u Their Doom or Z
yuan shi Kai's rule IA China wouldI
seem 10 be upheld IN The central prov
|tnces by d species Of terro orisn, y ME-
can believe writer's III the Shafig
Mercury and the Shan ghat eentraI
China Post Reyoi ointioni i. Ne reads
are being seugllt out ~ spies and are
put to death ID batch hes, and praasl
|critics are being esfec ctually silenced.ll
| The Mercury KsiaIg gsu corresp lent
ltells Of the sharp lcokout' for' revssII
IiutionaIses In that district Just as
three Of them who had been capturedl
Iii one week were 10 be put to deathsll
leathey cursed President Yilan as u rob-
ber, and shouted that they we're dying
for their country IS a reminder
that we are still hi the midst Or q
lsemibarharic civilization n this cor
Irespondent feels constrained 70 add
that their hearts were cut out, 70 be
eaten by the soldiers. al this article
lof diet Is reputed To have special vir-
ltue IN developing bravery and that
this practise 81 NUT tilation IL not nm
common. Kaifeng correspp ppnient
Iof the Central China Post tells of a
perfect reign of terror in the prov
lincs of Honan; 1.
The trains going ont yesterday
were crowded with students who are
running away to their homes. MANY
3are nguighing IN iail, and their pros:
poets are anything but bright. Yes
lteraay between twenty and thirty men
awere executed not all 81 whom were
l.hrigands; one is said to have been an
1 .lafacial of high rank few days = agc
.lEhHrty were executed. As one meets
1.-THE carts cont ntainiag prisoners goinE
i ito the execution round surrounded by
[laughing and Joking soldiers armed
II to the teeth. one is reminded ovel
Y and over again of ,he French Revo
n lutIon Many Of the prisoners ars
j. well.dressed, and we have heard u
several standing UP in the carts alls
i ADDRESSING the people before they ar
81 executed, saying that they are dyinl
s sIfor their country.
! Some day the powers that be vii
! pay the debt that II accommodating
q with deadly interest, All Chinese lot
]. tiers passing through the Kaifeng pos
Office are opened, both incoming an,
q outgoing, five clerks at q salary 9
n fifty taels a month giving their whol'
4 time to It, and Wo betide the unfortu
y nate who receives letter crit ticizint
9 the government or expressing q ssia
g picious sentiment Not only is the he
9 eeiver seized and hailed to the torture
g but a telegram is sent and the write
7 Of the letter also apprehende ed. Th,
Y government inquisition-hall in KHi
3 feng happens to be across the roas
! from a Christian mission hall, wher,
the missionaries are driven to tiistrac
tion by the shrieks and moans nigh
i and daysof the tortured prisoners,
{ 10 modern republican methods d
s torture for this province, BIZ. Tie old
1 time syle which caused men to con
Il Tess pack Of hes and die to eseape
/ the torment And now the terror ii
t getting more acute, for detectives are
y busy as never before searching out
Il plofters and sus piciois characters. it
4 Is more lucrative than ord mary work,
Il for each person arrested brings in i
4 reward Of fifty taels and NO enbar-
il trassing questions are asked as to the
Probability or otherwise ofs the eYi-
dence adduced
Sun Vat Sen was buoyed up dur
ing waiting years with the thought
I that len grning pub chang, and vel
may be sure that 4 Nemesis awaitsl
those who are shedding the blood ofI|
the most promising men III tfIs prov.l
lince. I.
Some cf these victims are accused
Of belonging to sths Ting Meng sHut.I
Of which Sun Men Is the head, /, ap-|
parently q reyoiuti tionary society curl
informant refers to general beiiefl3
that White VOL, the bandit cbief|I
who has been plunde dering central
China and defying the Pekine goy.l
|ernment has quite number 81 thsI
members y ~ the Tung Mang Hi il hisI4