Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1892 — CHINESE SLAUGHTER. [ARTICLE]

CHINESE SLAUGHTER.

Eight Thousand Rebels Put to Death by the Government. Five Hundred Burned Alive by the Troops —Detalla of a War That Means Bloodshed. According to advices received from Shanghai on the 28th the bloody engagement# between the imperial troops and rebels in northern China resulted in the slaughter of several thousand rebels The imperial army lost only five killed and forty-five wounded. Over eight thousand rebels were put to death with the sword and five hundred actually burned. A number of engagements are reported. A body of insurgents numbering three hundred was overtaken by the Imperialists at a place sixty miles Irani Kulun, and over one hundred of them were killed and three leaders were made prisoners. In a second engagement over fifty of the enemy were put to the sword and the remainder were obliged to retire to a Dawn shop, the strong walls of which made it an admirable place to defend. The Imperialists closed’ invested the building and killed over 150 of the inmates. Intelligence later reached the Imperialists’ camp that a force of the enemy comprising six hundred cavalry and eight hundred infantry had arrived with the object of coming to the rescue of their confederates. They were attacked in* front and rear by the Imperial forces and lost 400 men du-ing the battle. Those who escaped encountered another party of Imperialists who shot fifty of them and made a scote of prisoners. Another detachment of rebels were posted’ at Meiyhaokontze, to which place the Imperialists continued their march. The rebel detachment numbered about one hundred, of which sixty were killed and twenty made prisoners, among the latter the so-called leader of the vanguard, Li Hang Tsa, who was instantly decapitated. A still larger force of the enemy was posted in the Chien Chang dis< trict, where they had an encampment with guns filled up ip loopholes of the walls surrounding the villages. Churche 9 ot the naw creed served as outposts of the rebel army. An onslaught was made upon •.heir position, and after an engagement la. tingAwo hours, eight hundred out of a total of 1,3(d were put to the sword. Afeop l five hundred of the rest were burned alive, and, including stragglers, it is estimated that not less than 1,400 of th» eneifiy were killed on this occasion. A number of the adherents of the new creed were captured, including three leaders, who were instantly decapitated, y- , .....