Salt Lake Telegram | 1911-10-28 | Page 1 | Victory of Imperial Forces Not Believed

VICTORY OF OP IMPERIAL FORCES NOT BELIEVED I SHANGHAI China Oct 28 Wireless ss dispatches from Hank ow ar reporting a far ft sweeping victory f for the imperial m troops troop op there yesterday caused a flutter nutter In Shanghai today The reports were re received re- re ed ceI-ed even in official circles in In- In credulity Rebel sympathizers de declared Jared that the s vere ei-e ei undoubtedly sent from c e t sources to bolster lster 1 ff n J up n 4 faltering cause The wireless dispatches were wet caught by bv some soni of h the he German naval oper operators tors They gave gL no details but said there was fighting lightIng all day yesterday frda at and I e gov m- m ment victory victor c compelling the rebels to abandon H and nd fall fallback back across the Han river into Han Yang Tang Rebellion Is Spreading Whatever th the t situation around Hanlow Han Han- low kow matters matteis hav have grown more desperate desperate desper desper- ate for the government cause in the vIcinity vi vicinity vI- vI vicinity of Shanghai and along the lower lowel part of ot the river There were ere persistent rep today that Ching dug Kiang Klang HO miles above Shanghai was about to fall faU into the hands hand of the rebels Ching Klang Kiang is the first of the series of ot lower river forts above Shanghai and is regarded here heie as the keystone of t the tie defence defense de de- de- de fence fent e of the city If If it falls It Is Is- Iscon conceded conceded conceded con con- ceded that all the forts below it as far fal as Wu Vu Sung will quickly follow l Wu Sung ten miles above aboy Shanghai marks the city's last line lino of defenses W West st of Shanghai the h wealthy a city of Su Chow is s threatened while h above Ching Klang Kiang three Important cities I tanking Hanking Yang Chow and Wu Wu-Hu ar re a-re believed to tobe tobe tobe be in danger All four of these theoS cities report reported reported re- re port ported d that while the situation Is Js quiet there is open sympathy for the Ule rebel cause and probably little effective resistance resistance resist resist- I ance aiice will be offered to attack Business at It is believed belle here that Shang Hual Huai the tho dismissed minister of posts and communications Is coming to Shanghai where he has a magnificent home More than pieces of his baggage baggage- have arrived arrived arrived ar ar- ar- ar rived here from fekin addres addressed d in the care of a for foreigner foreigner- The business business' situation Is still ous The TIle money market is in an alarmIng alarming alarm alarm- ing lug state on account of the vast ast amounts of specie withdrawn from the banks here hereby hereby hereby by Pekin and other centers