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Show Id PLliLAIILII Attacked by Manchus nd Put to Death While Asleep Poking, Nor. 7. General Wu, a brilliant youngs military officer who was recently appointed governor of Shan SI province, was assassinated at 1 o'clock this morning. He was asleep In his tent at the mllltnry encampment en-campment nt Shlkla-Chaug when thirtj Manchu soldiers rushed past the guard and murdered him. When offlcors of tho goneial's sinfi arrested the Manchus. tho latter stated stat-ed that Wu had gone over to the revolutionists rev-olutionists and wns secretly betraying the Manchus. General Wu was educated In Japan and had risen raDidly since his roturn to China. He was liberal In hla views and was always ci edited with sympathy sym-pathy with reform movements, although al-though ho wn6 not an extremist. The general, whose full name was Wu Lu Cheng, reported to the go-ernment go-ernment a few days that he could per-sundo per-sundo the Shcu SI rebels to accept the constitution outlined by the national na-tional assembly, .but at that tlmo a suspicion was, current that the general gen-eral himself was a rovohitlonlBt. His nttltudo has since been a matter of some concern to the Manchus Ke is a native of Hu-Poh province and in April, 1910, was. made ricput lieutenant general of tho Jlordorcd Red Mongol banner. Pokinc ic Nervous. Peking, Nov. 7. Garrisoned and policed po-liced by loyal., t,ioqps the capital remained re-mained tonight undlaturbed by tbo lehelf. The. general feeling of noi-vousness, noi-vousness, howpvev, was betrayed when a flro broke out in tho quarters occupied oc-cupied by tho board of ceremonies. For a time the Chinese believed the flames were a revolutionary signal for un uprlsing'and they. wore thrown Into a panic. ' The national assemblyj by vlrj,ue ot the powers beflfowed on -It by-tjie ro- (Continued on Page 'Four.) r GENERAL WU IS BEHEADED (Continued from Page One.) cent edict, formally appointed Yuan Shi Kai premier. The question of his permanency in the office was discussed dis-cussed but It was decided that the assembly had no authority In this beyond be-yond a national election. A mass meeting was held In Linan-Fu Linan-Fu in Yunan province, when a series of demands on the government was formulated. These included the establishment es-tablishment of a republic and complete com-plete autonomy for the provinces. The domands were forwarded to this city accompanied with the intimation that three days only would bo allowed for the government to acquiesce In them. Russian financiers, under guise of a loan, have arranged with the viceroy of Manchuria to advance ?2, 500,000, accepting as security Chinese shares in the Russo-Asiatic bank at Peking. The officer commanding the sixth division, which was a part of General Wu 'Tu Cheng's command at Spikla |