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Show FOUR THOUSAND DEATH TOLL IN GHINESEMUTINY Beat Available Report Indi- cate Destruction of Four Cities; Crest of Uprising Declared to Hare Passed NO WORD RECEIVED CONCERNING CONVERTS Fear Felt That 600 in Catholic Catho-lic Mission May Hare Been Slain; Commander of North Cains Control PF.KIN, June 24 (A. P.) Tha ereat of tha mutiny which haa drancbed Klang-BI province with blood, apparently appar-ently la put. Keports from tha beat available eourcea place tha death toll at mora than 4000 and Indicate the destruction, de-struction, or eavere damage, of four cities, but do not Indicate that any foreigners for-eigners have bean moieeted. However, no word haa bean received from (04 Chlneoe Christian converts reported, Imprisoned In the compound of tha Cathollo Lasaxlat mlaaion at Talho. atnee they ware besieged there Thure-day Thure-day by mutineers, except their original appeal fur aid. Aa a reault anxiety which haa bran felt for aeveral daya ranched a higher pitch thla morning. Talho la twenty mllea aoulh of Klan-fu Klan-fu In Klaiig-Ml province. luteal reporta are that foreigners, except doctora attending wounded In tha huspltale, have left Nanchang, al-thouah al-thouah that city la quiet and no feara are felt for Ita aafaiy. Nanchanf la under tha care of a civil governor, who la provided with 1 14.000 a month by private Intereata for uaa In maintain main-tain ln( order. Chin ar reported to be hurrying there to aaln hla protection. protec-tion. Kouth of Kanchang communications virtually ar at a etandatill and It may be eoverel daya before compute detail of the davaatatlon wreaked by tha mil tltrevr becomes iiuwn. -However, n la established that the greater portion ef Klan Ku. Talho, Wanan and Lung t'huan have been destroyed. In theae cities many have bean elain, the greater great-er portion of the known dead havlnc been found there. A ateadlly decreasing amount of credit la being accorded dispatcher, apparently ap-parently baaed on rumors atarted by overwrought native, that foreigner hare been subjected to mistreatment. Oenersl Teal Chen-Hsun, commander comman-der of tha northern Chlneae foroe In Klsng-81, part of whom mutinied, la declared to ba Increasing hla hold over tha rebellious men snd to have stopped their retreat and the looting along tit-Kan tit-Kan river. |