In Hankow native city there has been considerable violence shown to civilians who have a northern accent, Popular animosity among the lower lasses has been aroused over rumours of abuses committed by the Northern troops in Wuchang. It has been sstatea by some seemingly reliable authorities that several murders have been thus committed but the writer cannot vouch for the truth of such statements.
This forenoon an aeroplane, apparently belonging to the Southerners, was observed over the cities.
Astounding as it may phone connexions and of a sort have been maintained with Wachang during the whole progress of the siege.
If rumours can be trusted, Poi-fw has fallen back from Hsiao Kan to Hwa Yuen on the Peking-Hankow R, R. It is also.rumoured that the Southern troops are following him, though the, railroad facilities at their disposal are very limited, Foreigners Safe Some Chinese students who succeeded in getting through from Wesley College, Wuchang, report Messrs Bonsell and Dixon safe and also Mr. Chapman at the Central China Teachers' College. Both of these institutions are without -the city walls to the east of Wuchang. AL present there are about 2,000 Southern troops quartered at Wesley and about 300 at Central China 'Teachers' College. Though the buildings have' been swept by bullets all are standing.
These students stated that outside the walls of Wuchang were very many dead bodies. Apparently it lis been impossible for the Southern. ers to bury their deag or to carry away the seriously wounded. The students state that -many* of the wounded men committed suicide The observation concerning the corpses was further confirmed by one of the foreigners at Wuchang who was able to look over the the top of the walls, No reliable estimate of the numbers of casualties can be given.
The party aboard the Kikungshan special train have arrived in Hankow.
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