CHINA’S POSITION.
[Reuters Telegrams.] CANTON FIRE. PEKIN, October (20. A fire in Canton which was confine:! to portions of tl’.e western district. was extinguished within twentyfour hours. J.c.ss than a twentieth of tho city lias been burned or looted. Alany native banks, porcelain shops, pawn ■s I) 11 jis and a few homes have been destroyed but practically no big companies are olfocteil. A conservative estimate of the damage is ten million dollars. ClieiH-hiiiiigmiiig troops are rojiorted at Sheldon, this side of Sheklung. Distant artillery lire is heard in that direction.
A detachment of fifty Indian Grenadiers was despatched from Hong Kong to B’hamin as a precautionary metusure. A NTI-Cl IIN KSE .111OTING. .MANILA. October 20. One Chinese was killed and two poli'.vmi'iil and thirteen Chinese serioua’.y wounded in anti-Chinese rioting. During the week-end live hundred police and reserves were on duty. The trouble is believed to he now under control. Similar rioting occurred on the outskirts. but there are no reports from the provinces.
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 October 1924, Page 2
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