RIOTS IN CHINA.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 19 April 1910, Page 3

RIOTS IN CHINA.

MiSSIONAKIKS DHOW X'KD

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[iM-Ilt PItKSS ASSOCIATION.]

PICK IN, April 18

The Ciiangsha riots co!iinic\nce-d with the rohhing of rice sliop?: which li,'c:uiie anti-foreign. On Thursday six missions wi'w Inirnt. and fnrtyfviie missionaries took refuge in boats, losing all their personal effects. Gc-ueral destruction of foreign property followed. Japanese and foreign-owned warehouses 'and shipping were looted and hiirnt, only the British Consulate being left unharmed.

The shallowness of the river prevented the British gunhot This'tle I'nmi reaching Chnngsha. Tho> Thistle cullidivl with a junk which had no lights wherein three German missionaries wore escaping to liankow. Tin* missionaries veve drowned. Other missionaries are safe at HanK'iiw.

(Received This Day. 9.30 a.m.)

LONDON'

April 18

If.'iitfi , reports that nil was quiet :it Hangkau on Monday. The mis-sif:i'-!irifs :it Humn (xwi Xnpeli) have been re-".-illr:l. The outbreak was partly dii'.-- to the report that the Powers W'.'i't , m ixjii fc to partition China.