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Show PREDICTS A SLAMMER Horrors of the Taiping Rebellion May Be Exceeded Shanghai, OcL 31. A fow days will i toll the future fortune of China. The ; burning of the native city of Hankow by tho imperialists, accompanied, according ac-cording toToporl, by brutal treatment or Chinese by Manchus. has created the. worst possible impression. It is predicted that, unless the Manchus .immediately demonstrate the sincerity sincer-ity of the Imperial edicts being issued at Peking, the slaughter will exceed that of the Taiping rebellion. The district south of the Yangtsc Kiting is quiet. There is every Indl- oatlnti that tho nntlvo lti of Shnntr- hai, Nanking, Ching Klang. Chan Chow and the lower Yangtse forts will be in the hands of the TCbels within a week. Whether their conquest will be accompanied ac-companied by a wholesale massacre of Manchus, depends-on tho Influence of the leaders. Foreigners at no point have been molested and they will remain unharmed, un-harmed, the rebel chiefs assure the press, unless such actions as those of the Imperialists at Hankow continue con-tinue and the reports of the dishonor and murdor of defenseless Chlncso women and children make it impossible impos-sible to control the rabble. Other reports re-ports oE small uprivor towns and others oth-ers in the heart of the Sze Chuen province going to the rebels arc received. re-ceived. The panic among the officials at Peking is regarded as ono of the worst features of tho situation, as Is betrays a weakness on the part of the dynasty hefore the spirit of revolution. revo-lution. Leaders of the new party look on the iEsnanco of the edicts as a victory far greater than anything that has been won on the field of battle. All Incoming rler boats are crowded crowd-ed with refugees Most of these are Chinese, but there are a few foreigners. foreign-ers. Eye-witnesses of the fighting at Hankow pay a tribute to the Imperialist Imperial-ist forces, They sav that the .rcvo- t..J li V ti. .1 .i iijiiuuinin wr miie more man an untrained mob. but courageous and ready lo continue the fighting. v.TJifircb.olfi. are. operating tho-Hunan.. mint 'and making great quantities of dollar coins idally The new revolutionary revolu-tionary paper Is being redeemed Immediately Im-mediately on presentation. Well informed in-formed persons lellce that if the next fow dnys pass without an outbreak, out-break, there will be a strong possibility pos-sibility of tho situation being sayed through the appointment of Yuan Shi Kal as premier with a younger Manehu as a figurehead In order o comply with the protocol of 1910. the forming of a cabinet composed entirely en-tirely of Chinese, the immediate convocation con-vocation of parliament and the railroad rail-road nationalization plnn inaugurated. |