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Show SLAY WOMEN AND CHILDREN Neither Age Nor Sex is Spared by Imperial Troops at Nanking When Slaughter Begins. Nanking. Historic Nanking is in the shadows of the Manchu butcher. Friday's sun set upon a scene of fire, rapine, desolation and butchery unrivaled un-rivaled in modern history. Friday night. 12,000 Manchu and imperial old style soldiers held Purple hill, where they are Intrenched, Intrench-ed, while from beneath their stronghold strong-hold they drove before them hordes of Chinese out of the city. Innocent Chinese, leaving everything every-thing behind them, fled, terror-stricken and destitute, to shelter In the fields at the rear of the reform forces. The latter, numbering between be-tween 10,000 and 30,000, are Impotent to check the slaughter or avenge the slain because of their lack of ammunition. ammu-nition. Since the night of November 8. when the first attack was made by the revolutionists, the Tartar general has endeavored to terrorize the Inhabitants In-habitants by wholesale executions. Those whose queues had been cut off were beheaded; but Friday, when the order for a general slaughter was given, the whole native city was Invaded In-vaded by the Manchu soldiers, who massacred men, women and children. Even the aged and women with babes In arms were shown no mercy. |