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Show CHIIJA RENT WITH MURDER AND ANARCHY Rebellion,-Pillage and the Torch Stalhing Through Country About Canton. STENCH OF DECAYING ! V BODIES FILLS THE AIR Panic Closes Stores and Famine Prices Are AsKed For Foodstuffs. : ' HONQKONO, May 1. BebeUlon, brt-gandaga brt-gandaga and anarchy are - atalklag throuxi th waiters half of Kwaogtung proTlnca, murdering, piUacing - and born ing. Tb loyal troop axe Sghtlag deaparately to cmah tlx npriatng, the aarionanaai af which U rrraaied la further fur-ther dlapatche front Canton today. Wu Sum, a Chinese, who wa educated edu-cated in Japan and baa adopted the drea of wester countriee, is the leader of the revolt against the Maorhu dynasty. dy-nasty. Th brigand ehief, Link, of Shun Tak, Is at th bead of horde of outlaw whoa object i robbery . and murder. Following the itandarda of the men are anarchists, whose purpoa the present outbreak lend itaelf to aaoat advantageously. -- Thee combined force have thrown themselves with fanatical disregard of their own live against the troop, and si are the drat outbreak Thursday night much blood haa beea shed." Sedition is rife among certain of the troop, and it i feared that the disaffected aol-dier aol-dier will deeert their officers if th revolter appear to have the. upper hand. t . Bodlan of Bain Uhbnrlod. . - Ofleial advice and the refugee arriving ar-riving from Canton today eoanrm the ainiater reports of yesterday. Bodies of th slain Ii in the streets of the eity. Famine prices are asked for foodstuffs aad the shop generally 'are eloaing. In the panic there have been few nttempta to bury the dead aad the stench from the decomposed bodice filial the nir. ' - Today th revolter have withdrawn t a great extent from Canton nod fare devastating the country to the west along; taw Weet-rrverr " Before- falling back they fought th troop front (treat to street, many, person being - killed. They attack the provisional arsenal and being repulsed gathered ia an immense rice store, which they barricaded with bag of nee. From the building they threw bomb into the attacking troop aad were only dislodged when the building waa set on Are. Many of tb revolter Mraped, but thirty or aor died ia the flames. , . 900 BobnU Killed. While the fighting waa pi ogi aaslnsr In the atreeta Chinese run boats, patrolllnc the West river, tired. Into several par-tlea par-tlea of rebels, alaughterlag 200 of them. Retreating to th countryside, the revo lutionartea attacked and captured 8am 8hul, thirty miles west of Canton, and murdered the prefect. The troops were Eut to fllsTtit and the rebels moved on i Waochow and Woochow. both of which towns th.y took after allant resistance. Line's brigands, follow In it la their wake, looted th shops of the three town. To triumphant sweep of th revolutionaries continued weetirard alone the W est river and report from that district say It la spreading and that the revolutionaries are murdering and pillaging in other plane. While th movement to the weat la being directed by Wn Sum. the brigand chief. Luk. haa led pereonally a force to the north of Canton. He looted the market at Chung Lob, twenty atltee north of Canton. He then made a wide detour de-tour to the weet of Canton and fell on Fatahan. a town fifteen mile, to the southwest of th capital of the province. prov-ince. Here he first destroyed the palace of the aeetanaat maalstrate and then turned the town over to his followera to b looted. - Advices state that Bhul-Hung, on the Weat river, haa faJlen- before the rove-lutlonarte. rove-lutlonarte. wh murdered the prefect. Hard 7 ought Battle. . The battle at Fats-hen waa bard rmintit, the fraperial troops giving battle at Lung Khl bridge, Thlrty-aevea so Idlers were killed beore the ttraope fell hsvk. The tnsvolutlonaries ar cutting toe eels-graph eels-graph wires throughout th scene of their opsn-artona, and conunualcatloa setsreen Canton and points to ths north aad weet le generally interrupted. Trarflo on the Chinee eactloa of the railway' leading north from Can ton haa been aimrwndeif. A report that Shamien, the foreign coa-eeeaeoa coa-eeeaeoa ebnve Canton, had bean invaded lacka confirmation. The American gunboat gun-boat Wilmington haa the plao under her rune. The viceroy of Can ten, who tneh refuse ref-use on a gunboat after bla paiao waa burned Wednesday ntrht. has ordoiod troops to pursue the rebels In the country. coun-try. The authorities apnea from the latest advisee to be In control at Canton. The aatee of the city are etosed aad ae on ta allowed.' to enter- A vino-roue roundup ef suapecta la bains made. Seven sun boats an anchored onT the city. , |