CHINESE REBELLION.

Otago Witness, Issue 2782, 10 July 1907, Page 15

CHINESE REBELLION.

SACK AND PILLAGE.

The Rev. C. D. Barnett, who has been in China for some time as a missionary, was a passenger by the 5.6. Eastern, which arrived at Townsville (Queensland) from Japan on June 16. Mr Barnett, in the course of an interview, gave particulars regard inn- the present rebellion. He said that it was generally considered that in Kwanfc Chang the feeling was anti-foreign. Such was not the case. A number of places occupied by foreigners, including the place where he had been staying, had boen -sacked, but this was only for loot. He did not consider it the result of any ill-feeling towards foreigners. The leader of the rebellion was a more capable man than was generally known. He had been to Japan to acquire military learning, and had come hack, poaseseing the qualities necessary to make a capable leader. Some, time ago it was supposed that 25,000 rifles had been imported from Japan. There wae nothing to indicate wliat had become of them. The Japanese Government gave notice to the Chinese Government that suoh a consignment had been landed in China, but the only indication as to what had become of it waa the present rising. The rebellion at present was purely local, but if it were to spread it would prove dangerous under the leadership of its present head.

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