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Show -r 4 -t-.r -r -r.. AWFUL SLAUGHTER I X BY CHINESE AT CHING SHANG FUI. f Victoria, II. C, May 3 News has been brought by the -f Bteamer Olympla from the Orient of further successes by f the Kvvang SI rebels, whose ever-growing armies were be- sieging Nanalng on the West -f river nt last reports. 1'ugltlvea -f who were living to Canton from tho scene of bloodshed and pll- - lage reported that the slaugh- tor at Chlng Shang Tul when that city fell was awful. More than 1000 persons were Killed s nnd their bodies left lying un- -f f burled In tho streets, while the rebels bumed nnd looted the f stores nnd houses. Terrible -f f slaughter Is also reported from -f -f other captured towns. Several -f -f thousand of the Imperial army -f nro said to have deserted. -f -- |