CHINESE GENERAL'S FATE

Evening Star, Issue 14966, 28 August 1912, Page 9

CHINESE GENERAL'S FATE

HIS FIENDISH EXECUTION. The following cable appeared in -Jie Sydney ‘Sun’ on tho 19th irui. ; - The execution in Peking of tin* rive geuer.ils who led the attack on AA’iirhnnr in October lint ha? created a gieat, stir in tho Ciii'.Ki-e capital. The Peking coirespondent of the ‘Dr.iiy Tekgrajh’ rou;pnrctv tho execution of General ( 'nnc; Giienwu to Napoleon’s shooting of the Duo d'Enghion Vincennes, and declarer: that what !rk= followed moans a turning point in the lifa of tho Republic. President A’nan Shill Kai is alarmed at the oatenthat has been raised, and i« publishing certain telegrams sent- by the A’ice-Presule.ut. in order to fasten the blame on that official. Yuan is eo much in dread of Hfen.-sination that lie has surrounded himself with troops. According to the Chinese newspapers, the execution was carried out in a fiendish fashion. AVhilst the bunuermen to whom the nuude-ious work was delegated were dining, the health of their victim was rejieutedly toasted. Dinner ever, they followed, General Chang Chenwu to hits lodgings. Here they blew a. whistle, whereupon a number of men appeared, and the general, having been bound hand and foot, was Hung into a mule cart-. He was then carried to the military court, hut the trial was the greatest of mockeries, the hapless officer being condemned to immediate execution. without a word of evidence. The first volley failing to despafdi the, victim, the firing was continued until the wretched man was riddled with bullets and completely disembowelled. A note was then scrawled and despatched to Chang Chouwu's widow. It was this, short but grim message: “ Send some clothes for your husband- lie fteW cold in the night "air.”

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