ANTI-FOREIGN RIOTS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 795, 19 April 1910, Page 5

ANTI-FOREIGN RIOTS.

IN CHANQSHA. A DEVELOPMENT OF RICE FAMINE. MISSIONS BURNED. By Telesrarh-rPrees Association—Oopyrielit ' Peking, April 17. , Further details of the riots at Changsha, in the. Hunan province, said to nave been caused by the officials cornering rice, state that the city is in names. Six thousand foreign-drilled Chinese troops baTe joined the famine-stricken rioters, who. number 24,000. The Governor's yamen was destroyed, and the Government bank was pillaged. ■',"• MISSIONARIES FLEE. FATAL COLLISION: THREE LIVES '. ■ LOST. BURNING AND LOOTING: TEOOPS LOOKING ON. (Rec. April 18, 10.25 p.m.) Peking, April 18. The Changsha riots commenced with the robbing of rice 6hops. They developed into anti-foreign riots on Thursday.' "■•'■. : •■' ; Six missions—the China Inland, United Evangelical, Wesley an, London, Norwegian, and Catholic—were burned. Forty-one missionaries took refuge in boats, losing all their personal effects. A general destruction of foreign property followed. Japanese and foreignowned . warehouses and shipping were looted and burned, only tlie British Consulate being unharmed. , . . : The troops did not interfere. The Chinese officials are helpless, and declare that they cannot help foreigners. , They have, therefore, ordered the mission stations throughout the Hnnan province to ho abandoned.' • : . • |. The viceroy of Hnpeh province has sent 2000 troops to Changs&a. Otners will follow. : . ■ ' . Mr. Hewlett, British Consul, has chartered two steamers to receive refugees, .including, 70 Japanese. The shallowness of the Siang-Kiang River J prevented the British gunboat Thistle from reaching Changsh.a. An unfortunate incident of the Thistle's expedition was that she ■ collided, with a junk, which had no lights, which was currying three German missionaries escaping to' Hankow. The missionaries were drowned. . Other missionaries are safe at Hankow.