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Show I CAPTURE OF :: GHANGGHOU ,. IMPORTANT & , By It the Chlneoe Rebels Cut Off 1 t ' Imperial Troops from Peking K -er-rv: ' Great Value as Strategic I "" s Shanghai, China, Oct. 23. The cap- BAKU H u,c of Chang-Chou by the revolution Bffiljf S lets was announced In dispatches IH j which reached this city shortly after HB B noon today. From a Htrnteglc point of Hl p view this city Bhould prove of great Hl h value to tlfc rebclB. It Is the Junction HKilf "' l,1 'll'''unK nlul Pckin-Hankow BwjP t railroads and Ik located 250 mllen V$Jft north of Hankow. H0'u Its capture apparently cuts off HBP from I'ekln all the Imperial troops HjK . ' now gathered nround Hankow and Hxf Wti-Chnng. !j Today's news from the lower Yang- ij , t le valley was all discouraging to the ' jj . government. With Klu-Klang In nn- B Is! ,tt disputed possession of the rebels, the ; If ' Imperial fleet has retreated on down i jl the river, bouio of the vessels being ' ' reported ns far eastward as Wu-Hu. H.jfi' i Conditions are ominous, .not only In Hjlf' Wu-Hu, hut also In Nanking. Most of Rjgi the llnnchu official havo left these HBf two cities and nrd crowding Into HS Shanghai, whero every hotel Is al- HI ready filled with refugees. HMhH1 The taotal of Shanghai today be- HBtf came so alarmed over the possibility HM of the secession of the native city to HHir the rebels that he removed his house. Hb hold to the foreign settlement. The iwl taotal or Nanking has also put him- HijUj self under the same protection. BM The city of SuChow Is in panic Hl owing to the "revolutionary threats of HBl. r,000 thousand weavers whose wages HljV have been unpaid for a long time. HJ&jf ' fc Revolutionary Capital. HBtjvL i. Revolutionary agents hcie announ- H.l'mf' , ed tolay that the Insurgents expect HB' i to establish their headnuartets at B; Jf Klu-Klang, which will probably bo the H'- I revolutionary capital. HJ jj The probable attitude of Yuan Shi HM; , J . Kal, whose "lame foot" prevented ac- HK,:i ceptnnco of the government's com- HB it mission to put down the rebellion. Is Hh I a subject of lively Intel est here. Yu- HB! '" an Is regarded as the man of the HBs jl hour in China. It Is hinted here that HB 1 , he may be Induced soon to give the HBi rebel cause his active support against Hh . the Mnnchu dynasty. HB) Although the Mancliu officials hero Siuutlnue to glvo out false nows of , tho state of affairs in ChangShn and sbbb, ' Kiu-Kiaug and other cities in order HB ii to create an impression that the lm- BBec ' ' perlalists are still In control, the nn- BBf i tivo press in Shanghai and in cities BBy , throughout south China has defied all BBf cunsoishlp and Is printing tho most HBT i exaggerated reports of Insurgent sue- BBlv ' cess In all parts of the country. Ap- BBf ' t- pnrently the government officials are BBit 3 making no effoit to enforce the eon- BBl f, sorship. BBf i i $ Little Resistance Shown. BBl i I B It is umiuestionably a fact thut the BBg 1 i entire Yangtse region and most of BBl'' southern China as well Is completely BBl j. revolutionary In sentiment. ill the BBii ' cities which have been taken over by BBl : the rebels in tho last few days havo BBE. j been captured almost without resist- BBJ l ante. Tho local government has stir- BBJ tf jj rendered quietly and rebel appointees Bi l havo taken their places with little HK jl ' stir. A few Mancliu officials have Hf X i been killed, but most of them have HB i rl Joined the rebel cause. HB l' , Details of tho transfer of Chang- BBJ t Sha to tho revolutionists were report BBc )l d to the telegraph headquarters here BBl 'Ij by tho operator of that city, "l'lcase BBk ,i, tako notice," lie said, "that the lnsur BB l!( gents havo duly occupied this olflce." ! '' Ho said that he himself had Joined ,i I I tho rebels. The declared Intentions i of tho leaders, ho added, was to grad- BH 'J: ualty take over city utter city, link- BH tf ing the various centers already In BB their possession, and thus push on to BBY Shanghai. Thoy planned, he said, to BBf! re-establish thu telegraph lines as BBf ( "ooii as posslblo and permit business BBT , to coutlnuo under a provisional gov- BH ernment which they declared would BH I 5 , have tho sympathy and support of the BH jjj. ' entire country south of tho Yungste. |
