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Show HANKOW BURNED TO ROUTE REBELS PRACTICALLY ALL OF NATIVE CITY DESTROYED BY FLAMES 8TARTED BY INSURGENT8. Shot and Shell Poured Into Doemed City, Red Cross Steamer and Non-Cembatants Non-Cembatants Receiving Same Treatment as Revolutionists. Wu Hu, China. Practically the entire en-tire native city of Hankow is In ashes, the result of the fire started by the Imperialists In their desperate attempts to dislodge the rebels. The English Methodist mission near the Han river escaped destruction by a narrow margin, as the flames at one time were within a short distance of that section of the city. Fifty blind boys and the staff of, the mission and 150 patients spent the night on the lawn In terror over the fire and the screeching of shells and roar of guns. Dr. Booth, realizing the approach of the flames, sent a committee under un-der a flag of truce to the Imperialists and asked for an armistice of two hours to permit the removal of the wounded from the mission. This was granted and the work of removal had Just begun when the firing waa resumed. re-sumed. The armistice lasted only thirty minutes. A Fled Cross steamer steam-er during the brief respite from the firing bad drawn near the mission to aid In the removal when It was driven back by the fire from the rebel forts. One shot pierced the deckhouse of the boat. |