CHINESE MOBS BUSY RIOTING

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7111, 25 April 1910, Page 1

CHINESE MOBS BUSY RIOTING

A CEITICAL SITUATION PUBLIC THREATS TO KILL ALL FOREIGNERS. VILLAGES BURNT. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. PEE2N, April 22. Missionaries who have arrived at Hankau, report that the situation in the province of Hunan is critical. I Mobs have burnt a numbeT oi.vil-j lages and many Chinese wero killed , during the riots. Tho Technical School at Ohangsha, | capital of tho province, was fired and thirty of the students incinerated. Posters on which are threats to kill all foreigners are placarded throughout tho province. Junks saturated with kerosene wero fired and sent down stream, destroying vessels arriving to rescue foreigners who until then wero in danger in Ohangsha. The British Consul, who has arrived at Hankau from Changsha, reports that the Consulate was burnt, because tho labourers in another province had beeu employed in the construction of new buildings. The British Minister at Pekin (Sir John Jo-dan) to-day mentions that reports of a recrudescence of tho riots have been received, but adds that no official particulars have been received. A sequel to tho 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 I tho opening of a new port to foreign trade. , j