CHINESE OUTRAGES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 796, 20 April 1910, Page 5

CHINESE OUTRAGES.

THE R£CENT BIOTB. BylWeeraDk—Press Awodstloo-OeiMrrfßlit 4 Peking, April 18. Renter's correspondent at Hankow, referring to the Changsha riots, states that on Monday all was quiet. The outbreak was partly due to rumours that the Powers were about to partition China, and partly to distress. BANDITS LOOT A CHINESE CITY. GIRLS CARRIED OFF. YOUNG MEN STRUNG TOGETHER LIKE CATTLE. Port Darwin, April 19. News by the Eastern mail, gives some details of the taking of the Chinese city Lwai-aen-hsien by robbers. The city is built on an island in the Liu River, about three days' journey from Kweilin, the capital of the Kwangsi province. The country around is full of precipitins limestone mountains, affording secure retreats for bandits The robbers in the first place killed the head officials and many of the inhabitants. The young men of the place were then made to stand in a line like cattlo, and were then secured by pieces of string passed through holes pierced through the protruding portion of the nose or through the ilesh at the back of the ankles." Eventually the captives were utilised as beasts of burden to carry off •the loot.

All the young, good-looking girls in the city were also mustered by the robbers and carried off by them into the mountain fastnesses. The concluding scene in tho tragedy was the setting fire to the town. • i

A correspondent says that although little is heard of these things as a rule, outrages similar to the above are of frequent occurrence inland, village after village . and - city after city being plundered and desolated by heartless bands of freebooters, who are rarely captured and punished. A DANGER AHEAD. WILL CHINA . • London, April 18. The approach of Hallev*s comet has aroused intense excitement in China. Tho Christian Literature Society is distributing posters Bhowing that. tho previous visits of the comet were harmless.