THE CHINESE RIOTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 372, 25 April 1910, Page 5

THE CHINESE RIOTS.

LEADERS MUST DIE. BURNING, PILLAGE, AND MURDER. JUNKS FIRED. POSITION SERIOUS. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Pekin, April 22. As a sequel to the Ch-angsha riots Great Britain and Japan have demanded compensation for losses sustained by their respective subjects and punishment of the responsible officials and decapitation of the riot leaders. Missionaries who have arrived at Hankau report that the situation at lianau is critical.

Mobs burnt a number of villages, and many Chinese were killed during the riots. The Technical School was fired and thirty students were incinerated.

Posters threatening to kill all foreigners have been placarded throughout the province. Junks saturated with kerosene have been fired and sent down stream to destroy vessels arriving to rescue foreigners, who until their arrival are in danger. The Changsha British' Consul, who has arrived at Hankau, reports that the Consulate was burnt because laborers from another province were employed in fhe construction of the new building. The British Minister at Plkin to-day mentions that reports are to hand of a recrudescence of the riots, and adds that no official particulars have been received.