The Archive · 1911

A Disorderly Retreat

(From the " Ostasiatischer Lloyd.")

Hankow, Oct. 20.

The population of Hankow almost entirely in sympathy with the rebels, Conflagrations between the concessions and the railway line are going on, probably for strategical purposes of the revolutionaries. The godown of the German firm of Schwarz Gaumer & Ca. at the Tachiméa has been burnt down.

Resr-Admiral von Krosigk, the Obiel of the German cruiser squadron, has arrived at Havkow with 8. M gunboat Iltis and the torpedo-boat S. has handed to' Youn Shih-Cai, fom the Tan Luog Vu Empress-Dowager

private legacy, of the Empress-Dow Tee-hsi, Tle. 200,000.08 " contribu from mandations back revolutionaries to the Imperial cause.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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