THE RIOTS AT CHANGSHA.
CHINA INLAND MISSION REFUSES COMPENSATION. By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright. , (Rec. Ang. 3, 9.10 p.m.) Peking, August 5. The China Inland Mission has refused the compensation offered by the Chinese Government' in connection with the recent riots at Changsha. The German claim is assessed at fifty thousand taels (about and the French at forty thousand taels (about £53,000).
In the riots at Ohangsha (Hunan) in April all tho foreign-owned buildings and shipping hulks were destroyed by tiro except the British Consulate. Of tho nine missions six wore burnt—namely, the China Inland, the United Evangelical, the Norwegian, the London, tho Wesleyan, and the Roman Catholic—as also were Messrs. Butterfield's and Messrs. jaidine's hulks and godowns and the Japanese Consulate; and the Government Bank was sacked. Tho primary cause of tho rioting was the rice famine, tho depreciation of the copper cash, and the attempts of the dealers to corner rico.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 886, 4 August 1910, Page 5
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151THE RIOTS AT CHANGSHA. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 886, 4 August 1910, Page 5
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