RIOTING IN CHINA.
LOOTING AND BURNING. SIX MISSION STATIONS DESTROYED. ' FORTY-ONE MISS T ONARIES I ESCAPE. BUT THREE ARE DROWNED. CHANGSHA IN FLAMES. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright. Received April 18, 10.30 p.m. PEKIN, April 18. Ti:e Chsngsha revolts commenced with the robbing cf the rice sbups. and became anti-foreign on Thursday. Six of the missions, viz., the China Inland, United Evangelical, Wesleyan, London. Norwegian and Catholic Missions, were burnt. Forty-one missionaries took refuge in boats, -osing all their personal effects.
A general, destruction of foreign property followed, and the Japanese and foreign-owned warehcusps, and shipping was looted and buret. Only the British Consulate remained unharmed, as the troops did not interfere with it. Thn Chinese officials are helpless, and declare they eanr.ol help the foreigners. They, therefore, ordered the missions throughout Hupeh province to be abandoned. The Viceroy of Hupeh sent two thousand troops to Changsha, and others are to follow. The British Consul chartered two steamers to receive the refugees, including seventy Japanese. The .shallowness of the river prevented the British gunboat Thistle reaching Cbangsha. She afterwards collided with a junk (which had no lights), wherein were three German missionaries, escaping to Hankow. The mult was the three missionaries were downed. The other missionaries are safe at Haokow.
TKOOPS JOIN THE RIOTERS?. VILLAGE IN FLAMES. Received April 18. 10.18 a.m. PEKIN, April 17. Six thousand foreign-drilled troops have joned the 24,000 famine-stricken rioters at Changsha. The Governor's yamen was destroyed, and the Government bank pillaged The city is in flames.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10022, 19 April 1910, Page 5
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253RIOTING IN CHINA. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10022, 19 April 1910, Page 5
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