| Show MASSACRE HINDERS PlANS FOR PEACE Chinese Imperial Troops Apparently Apparently Ap Ap- Ap- Ap Have Got Beyond Beyond Be Be- Y yond and Control FOREIGNERS ARE IN PERIL t Throne and National Assembly Working Working Working Work Work- ing Together in Hope of Ending Ending End End- ing Revolution By Associated Press Peking i No Not 2 The The massacre of or na fives t at Hanko b by imperialist troops intelligence of ot which has reached both the war board and the German legation ma may prove provo a serious hindrance to tho peace negotiations which Yuan Shih Shil Kal lal has been en endeavoring to Inaugurate inaugurate rate with the rebel leaders ers The Imperialists Im In apparently have havo got beyond control and further fighting is fenced feared In such a case it wall be difficult to i protect the foreign conc concessions as the they are arc divided from the native city b by streets only fifty or sixty feet cot wide It Is reported that the war board at Poking Peking has declined to accept the suggestion sug sug- of or foreign n doctors to form a aRed aRed Red Hed Cross society on the tho lines of ot the Geneva convention con n the board seeming to feel that the rebels do do- donot not deserve humane treatment The Tho massacre ac according according according ac- ac cording to some advises advices began before beCore the departure of General Yin Tho The exo exodus us from Peking continues the doors of oC nian mM many shops as well wen as private ate houses being being- closed In anticipation anticipation antici antici- pation of oC a massacre The Thc missionaries mission narles n- n arles aries who have ha had a conference with tho legation have ha decided ed that the few soldiers placed In each of the four Cour large larKe mission compounds would suffice to prevent ordinary outlawry and looting looting- which is 18 expected to bc begin ln any nl night ht Should there bo ho a general outbreak aUthe all aU the others could take tako refuge in the Methodist mission which is immediately immediate immediate- ly 1 east of or the leg leg-a legation Uon quarter and easly casU easily cas- cas U ily ly defended n Regiment Mutinies An official dispatch from Shi KaiTan Kai Kai- Tan Shansi province says that a regiment regiment regiment regi regi- ment of Shansi troops which has been dispatched to assist the imperialists has lias Tho mutineers killed their brigadier general and then bombarded bombarded bom bom- barded a Manchu city massacred 1000 Janchus including the governor o and his family General Yin who until a few days ago was comman commander er o of the imperial im- im Imperial imperial im Im- forces at Hanko returned here today There was a great crowd atthe atthe at nt the station at the time of his arrival but no demonstration took place Letters dater October 29 9 and 30 O from the Associated Press correspondent ent with tho Imperialist army at Hanl ow say sa that in the struggle for possession of th the elt city there was to hand-to-hand I fighting in the streets the quarters be being being be- be ing too close for shooting shooting- The rebels I mostly raw recruits not understanding the use of rifles were driven back with much slaughter their dead piling up upon nn on the quay Tho The casualties among the j Imperialists for two days October 28 s I and 29 9 were thirty killed and woun wounded ed Th The rebels had about 1 med kilted or wounded I Tho The fighting continues the correspondent correspondent corre corre- pon ent until the last three days had hadnot hadnot hadnot not been serious The Thc rebels had the advantage antage In artillery but their shells lH did not explode The imperialists had the advantage ad in troops but the they were poorly provisioned No Xo prisoners were aken taken Rebels alive were shot Ir r decapitated I Soldiers Soldier NI Commit It Is learned that the tho most barbarous outrages wore were perpetrated on innocent persons in the villages mages An officer of Yin staff starr explained that the outrages es were erf committed b by only fort forty men mn of the tho division illon Dispatches received in Peking to to- to say the the- rebels occupied Chili Chili- H Sen ln on Monday last but on ho tho following day rIa the Imperialists drove them to Tze Kwang an Impregnable Impregnable pass in the mountainous country countr The rebels have ha torn up a mile half stretch of or railroad and blocked the tho tunnel and now hold the pass with a small body bod of men The governments go plan for bringing about peace moved forward rapidly to toda today today to- to da day with the throne and the lie national assembly working to together ether The throne or ordered ered Yuan Shih Kal lai the new premier premier premier pre pre- mier to return Immediately to Peking and ind simultaneously the national assembly as- as In its itA official capacity tele- tele General Li Lt Yuen Hueng leader lead lead- er of or the revolutionists requesting him himo to o suspend hostilities pending pending- tho the result re result re- re sult Bull of the ende endeavor or to settle the differences differences differences dif dif- o of all parties Another edict was issued toda today ItIn It In instructs the national assembly to organize organize organize or the tho Ta empires empire's constitutional constitutional ional laws and submit them to us for tor consideration and Issuance MEETING OF WELSH ELS The Sons and Dau Daughters of or Wales Vales will t hold their regular meeting tonight at the Knights of ot Columbus Columbu hall John James will speak on Wales in Music and will give a history of the tho famous Mountain Ash male voice olce chorus which will vill appear at the Salt Lake theatre November 14 4 n and 15 L |
