Show REVOLT IN N CHINA 5 SPREADS Foreign Consuls Refuse to Aid Government Against the Rebels S LATTER WIN VE VERY Y NOTABLE VICTORY Capture Wu Chang Declare De De- dare clare Foreigners Will Not Be Molested China Oct 11 The The rev rev- have won a a. notable vie vic tory gaining possession of the city of Wu Wit Chang after aftel a battle with the loyal troops that began yesterday and continued con con- tinned well into last night Today the foreign foreign- residents had not been molested The revolutionary committee committee com corn issued a a. proclamation exhorting its followers not to harm time tIle citizens of other countries The fact fat that the wishes of the committee ommittee have been respected respected respected re re- re- re thus far while reassuring to other nations is in itself a a. sinister sign for the government at Pekin as it indicates indicates indicates in in- that the rebellious movement is isnow isnow isnow now more thoroughly organized Earlier outbreaks have assumed the char character of rioting in which the time mobs were were- ere soon out of the tho control of intelligent intelligent intelligent intelli intelli- gent leadership thus making tb their ir defeat de de- de- de feat by liy the better directed government troops comparatively ey easy The eat feat of the officials now is that the disaffection in jn the tho troops will spread spread-io- this city and every effort is being made to warl it off Gunboats Are Ready I I I I I e Five gunboats are now in in the river rh-er in m in read readiness ne s to o protect Il II should Ithe the ne arise The The foreign foreign consuls consuls con can have have- also asked th their ir government that be t to th e scene cene American and Japanese cruIs cruisers rs are expected ex ox- here toni tonight ht while several gunboats gunboats gun gun- boats are hastening hither Merchant vessels in the time river are keeping steam up and women and children children children chil chil- dren will b board aid ard them tonight Volunteers will guard the foreign forein qua quarter ter lI until til the safety of all f foreigners foreign foreign- reign ers era is is s The revolutionaries defeated in Sze Chuen province where they for some sometime sometime time irae besieged the capital Cheng Tu transferred their chief activities to province in ten ling to make it ithe th the he base for renewed operations in Sze Ste Chuen According to officials an uprising in inu Wu u Chang was planned for Monday ni night hh The plot was and anti two thirty arrests were made Desiring to terrorize the revolutionaries four of the prisoners were beheaded in the str strict street et before Defore the viceroys viceroy's yamen yes yes- Executions Bring Bring Conflict Immediately a portion of the a govern government govern govern- vern- vern ment meat artillery forces within the city city- mutinied and the uprising was precipItated The disaffection spread to other forces and the revolutionaries started fires ires throughout the city and attacked troops that refused to Join The Theatter latter atter were overcome Troops proved to be disaffected and anti within a few hours after the first trou- trou ble le developed the entire city was in an uproar Fires were started in every corner orner of the town the headquarters of the viceroy ani of the provincial treasurer were burned the military commander was killed by a 8 dynamite bomb and the and the viceroy himself escaped only by bast hasty flight foreigners known to have haye been jeen in Wu Chang Je yesterday y are five ty-five American missionaries The appealed to to the foreign n consuls to instruct their then warships to guard Juard the harbor limits and ancl head off oil rebel ebel reinforcements from the river The Tho viceroy sent a message to Pekin urgently requesting the immediate dispatch dis- dis patch atch of warships from Tein Tern Tsin He then hen found r refuge fuge on a private yacht t. t His is headquarters and the provincial l headquarters were were burned The mih- mih tary ary commander was vas assassinated Consuls Keep Out The foreign consuls at a conference today oday decided not to comply with the Chinese request that they employ for for- the revolutionaries ei ign n gunboats to prevent from rom crossing the river to lankow The revolutionaries sent a circular note to to- the consuls askin asking that foreigners ners remain neutral ani assuring them hem that they would not lot be harmed Today the loyad troops tied fled across the river vcr followed by bv bullets Of the gents A fugitive colonel colone of ot the C inese n e correspondent of The Informed the arm army Associated Press at that toe enre entire entire en- en tire re provisional army of ot with the exception of two two or three thousand nd men mutinIed The TIme proclamation of the revolutionary rev- rev with de decapItation de- de c committee thre threatened capItation any anyone one who wh Assaulted a Q or- or elAner eigner The The movement ims 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