HORRIBLE DEEDS IN CHINA.

Grey River Argus, 20 January 1912, Page 5

HORRIBLE DEEDS IN CHINA.

TERRIBLE, SLAUGHTER OF THE IIN'NOCENTS. -'

ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION

\&y Electric Telegraph— Copyright.)

(Per Press Association. i

. PEKING, .'.Ian. ,13 In .connection with the attempt to assassinate General Yuan-Shih-Ksii, investigations show that wires wcie s.tretched across the street, forcing the cortege to stop. Outriders disniouni':ed and cut the iCfbstiructions '•«.riTh the-.T swords.

Geneiral Yuan-Shih-Kai's CoCnpe was due to the first boin,b 'rom the vciandaii ho\^ exploding. The sornud 'on» wounding an officer and a soldier and as a resulti of the third explosion, nimie have sintee died while six s.Tditrs are in a critTical conditi-jn. Forty ar rests hiave been made.

A relief mission has arrived atl Pc Icing ;f rom Shensi. . '

Shensi and Hanan (report that anarchy, and outlawry are prevalent. The revolutionaries amid Imperialisms are equally lawless. Many women have been ibi'u tally murdered. Towns and villages are deserted, the inhabitants hiding in caves in the mountains.

A mob atl Sianfu surrounded .the Beckman school and set fire to it. They thenl butchered the fleeing children with axes, spades and spears.

The city gates "were, closed far four days while' 'the. mob murdered 10,000 people.

The executioner ®übseque'n*ly strangled ithr.ee of General Yuan-Shih-Kai's assailants.