THE CHINESE RIOTS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXV, Issue 13054, 23 April 1910, Page 5

THE CHINESE RIOTS.

SITUATION**"CRITICAL.

Rioting and Murder.

Trying to Stop Assistance .Being Sent.

Press Association.— I Telegraph.—Cooyright. Received April 23, 9.55 a.m. PEKIN, April 22.

The missionaries who have arrived at Hankau report that the situation at Uannn is critical.

Mobs burnt a number of villages. Many Chinese were killed during the riots.

The Technical School, was fired, ini 30 students were incinerated. '

Posters threatening to kill all foreigners have been placarded throughout the piovince.

Junks, saturated with kerosene, have been fired and sent down stream to destroy vessels arriving to rescue foreigners, wbo until their arrival are in danger at Changsha.

The British Consul has arrived at Hankau and reports that the Consulate has been burnt because, labourers from another province were employed in the construction of new buildings.

The British Minister at Pekin to-day mentions that reports are to hand of a ’-p----crudescence of the riots, and adds that no official particulars have been received. COMPENSATION CLAIMED. By Britain and Japan. Received April 23, 9.30 a.m. PKKIN, April 22. As a sequel to tho Changsha riots, Britain and Japan have demanded compensation for losses sustained to their respective subjects and the punishment of the responsible officials, also the decapitation of the riot leaders.