THE HANKOW HOLOCAUST.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13271, 23 November 1911, Page 3

THE HANKOW HOLOCAUST.

HEROISM OF RED CROSS

SOCIETY

Sytiney, Nov 22. Tho "Daily Telegraph's" special correspondent, describing tin- i.Hirmiu, of the native city of Hankow, under the direction of tho Chinese Imperial generals, says that whore once there was a splendid city with a population of half a million, there is now only a heap of smoking ruins. With live shell, lyddite and kerosene tho troops swept through U^ streets destroying and burning. Shells from the batteries posted by tho rd.'ls had no influence in cheeking the terrible and wanton holocaust, How r.incn (lamago was done, how many lives wero lost, would never bo kw.vn. . Tho correspondent givos a vivid description of the rescue of 150 wounded soldiers and SO Wind boys from the hospital. During tho three-quar-ters of an hour r.llowod for the rescue work, 20 foreigners, with details of the Chinese- Rod Cross Society, penetrated two miles. The flag was nddWl with bullets, which swept the streets, but the party carried all to safety.