NANKING-IN FLAMES.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13262, 13 November 1911, Page 2

NANKING-IN FLAMES.

GARRISON RUNS AMOK

AN INDISCRIMINATE SLAUGHTER.

[Fhesb Association—CorruiGHT.]

(Received Nov 12, 5.5 p.m.)

Pekin, Nov 11. The Imperialists are burning Nanking and looting private houses. Over 50,000 people have left the city.

The Tartar garrison became demented with the idea of self-preservation, and ran amok, killing mcii, women and childiVih indiscriminately: All students without queues were butchered; and even people in mourning were murdered, owing to tho fapt tluit their white clothes were symbols of revolutionary sympathies. * i At least 10Q0 persons were tilled.