CHINA DEMANDS AN INDEMNITY.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1151, 12 June 1911, Page 5

CHINA DEMANDS AN INDEMNITY.

THE MASSACRE AT TORREON. WARSHIP DISPATCHED TO MEXICAN WATERS. A CARNIVAL OF BRUTALITY, By Tclecrapli—Press Association—Ooryricht (Rec. June 11, 5.5 p.m.) New York, Juno 10. Reports from El Paso, on tho Mexican border, state that an order was recently issued for tho deportation of 300 Chinamen from Mexico. It is believed tho Chine-o attempted to gain an entrance into tho United States. The Chinese Government is demanding an indemnity of twelve million pesos (about .£120,000) from Mexico in consequence of the slaughter of 300 Chinese subjects at Torreon, in Northern Mexico, in the middlo of last' month. China is also demanding an apdlogy from Mexico, and now has a warship en route for Mexican waters. The Federals abandoned Torreon'without giving notice and the ruffian element broko looso and started a massacre of the Chinese. The incoming rebels aided the rioters, and the heads of the unforilinate Chinese were rolled in tho streets, while tho bodies wero tied to horses' tails. Twenty-five Chinese were murdered at the Chinese Bank. The intervention of the foreigners in the town stayed the slaughter.