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Show CHINESE REBELS TAKE A C1TV. j The Recent Vprisinir Seexr-s to Be of Very Serious Nature. Loxdox, Nov. 16. The Chronicle's correspondent cor-respondent at Shanghai says: The capture of Tehwei, near Foo Choo on Tuesday, by 15.0o0 rebels was a well organized uprising; the rebels were armed with repeaters and led by capable men. The outbreak was directed mainly against the authorities, though anti-foreign anti-foreign cries were heard. The officials were powerless. The European residents are apprehensive of the spread of the revolt. The British consul con-sul here in an interview said he believed the recent quietude was only temporary, the spring and summer being a favorable period for outrages in China, Light draft gun- boats are an absolute necessity to protect the Europeans in the interior and at the river treaty ports where massacres will inevitably follow the auii-f oreign demonstrations unless special preventive measures are adopted In spite of a semi-official statement that two Iehang rioters have been beheaded and others bastinadoed it is notorious that the real culprits are sti'l free, being protected against arrest by exalted agents of the Pekin treasury, who paid the indemnities agreed upon of 2000 to the sufferers of the state of Wuchu, and 4000 to the families of the Europeans killed at Wusseh. The American missionary Dart hss expressed the opinion that the trouble will be renewed next spring. |