THE RIOTS IN CHINA.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 800, 25 April 1910, Page 7

THE RIOTS IN CHINA.

VILLAGES BURNED.

THREATS TO KILL FOREIGNERS. BLAZING JUNKS. lly T«l«rr»Bh—Pra>a Auoolatlon-OoDrrlehL Peking, April 22. Missionaries who have arrived at Hankau report that the situation in the province of Hunan is critical. Mobs have burnt a number of villages, and many Cbineso were killed during the riots. The Technical School at Changsha was fired and thirty of tho students incinerated. Posters on which arc threats to kill all foreigners are placarded throughout the province. , Junks saturated with kerosene were fired and sent downstream, destroying vessels t arriving to rescue foreigners who until then were in danger in Ohangsha. The British Consul, who has arrived at Hankau from Changsha, report? that the Consulate was burnt, 'because the labourers in another, province had been employed in the construction of new buildings.

The British Minister at Peking (Sir John Jordan) to-day mentions that reports of a recrudescence of the riots have been, received, but adds that no official particulars have come to hand.

COMPENSATION.. DEMANDS BY BRITAIN ANB ~ JAPAN. . London, April 22. iL S l ql Jf l 1116 rioting in Changsha is that. Great Britain and Japan have demanded compensation for the : losses sustained by their respective subjects, punishment of the responsible officials decapitation of the riot leaders, and traded"" 1 '" ° f * port 40 f O">ign

the religious outlook. . Referring the religious outlook' in states' t ' °^ c (London) China is gradually assimilating. Western ideas, but.it does not seem as. if •the prospects for Christian missionaries ■ have; become brighter within ' the , A Shanghai' correspondent, writing: to our contemporary '* America, that, the feeling which was manifested ' during the. Boxer rebellion has not at all disappeared. Contact with the foreigner caused China to move much against her will or be absofP™-. For such a proud and selfsatisfied people th§ alternative was peunpleasant, and in consequence a.sense of bitterness is .still entertained by the ruling and literary classes. The foreigner has been admitted, but not on a footing; of equality. Ho is treated neither as a friend nor a teacher, and it is of no service to him, but rather the.contrary, that his ability, learning, superiority and success bring into strong relief the incompetence of the Uhmeso. Moreover/he, is suspected of casting a longing eye on the land, and the Ohinese are reminded of his propensity to encroachment by the presence of the Germans at Kiaochau and the demands put forward for railway tmd mining concessions. The foreigner lii China is therefore hated, and there hovers round him an atmosphere of'opposition, prejudice, and suspicion. The day may come when the: Chinese will cease to display those signs of ill-will, 1 but . it does not appear vto be near at hand. ■. ■ ■ .