THE CHINESE RIOTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 367, 19 April 1910, Page 5

THE CHINESE RIOTS.

HUNGRY ASIATICS. GREAT RIOTS. MISSIONARIES LOSE EVERYTHING. MUCH DESTRUCTION. SOME FATALITIES. By C*bl« —Presi Association—Copyright. Received April 18, 10.25 p.m. Pekin, April IS. The Changsha riots, which commenced with the robbing of rice shops, became anti-foreign on Thursday. Six missions, including the China Inland, the United Evangelical, the Wesleyan, the London, the Norwegian, and the Catholic missions, were burnt.

Forty-one missionaries took refuge in boats, losing all their personal effects. General destruction of foreign property followed.

The Japanese and foreign-owned warehouses and shipping offices were looted and burnt, only the British Consulate being unharmed. The troops did not interfere, and the Chinese officials were helpless, declaring that it was impossible to help foreigners, therefore ordering that the missions throughout Hup oh province be abandoned.

The Viceroy of Hup eh sent two thousand troops to Changsha, and others are to follow.

Mr. Hewlett, British Consul, charteied two steamers to receive refugees, including seventy Japanese. The shallowness of the river prevented the British gunboat Thistle reaching Changsha. The Thistle collided with a junk which had no lights, wherein were 'three German missionaries escaping to Hankow. The missionaries were drowned. TROOPS JOIN THE RIOTERS. Pekin, April 17. Six thousand foreign-drilled men ha»e joined 24,000 famine-stricken -iotcrs at Cliangsha. The Governor's residence at was destroyed and the Government bank The city is in flames