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Show SOLDIERS KILLED IN CHINESE RIOT Situation in Sze Chnen Is . , Rapidly Becoming More Serious. WASHINGTON. Hept. 11.- BIoimI lias been upHled In Fae Ch-.en. China, and Jhe ftituatl m has' ajrown rapidl; In -rlous'ieaa Over twenty rlo:era and a numlier "f anldiera lave been killed in battle during the taat fw days, result- inc from attacks vi dlsaatlsfled natives rw the ni'.-n. the reidenre of Chang Fu. the 'vlcen-y of ''mien. This ln- fonnatiun reached the sta'a department JoOay. Reports to the department induata that tho A merit an women, and hlhiren have ah-eadv left Cheng Ku under e, orl, and It Is thought that others also hava de-farted- With liA soldiers Tuan Karg. director e-f ihf Imperial railway, left Hankow for the disturbed piovlrua on flatnrdav. Other fcircea are belli collected n the Oiuen border. To Inveatiaata the situation which Is threatening to th An.erlans Tnlted wtatew ri.nsm r his Mf llanhaw Sal , urday Iilght for Chang- King. Trie grav-l:v grav-l:v of Uio conditions and tha fearful possibilities pos-sibilities ftf the tnamtnoth uprising; iave fcrought the central aoTermnni of China tn a nulck decision to auppreaa tha trou-! trou-! with a strong hand. TharMay the rlnaleadera nf the aglta Hon war. rrea1el hy tha viceroy of tha jrovln'e Thla Inflamed their fol'owera and resulted In a ylciotm attack on the aman hy the moh. The soldiers on fuard fired Into th" rioters, killing some wenry of (hem. Tha mob returned and n a aubseqnent asaault on tha vlceroy'a realdenra slew a number of tha troops. La ' est news In regard to tha condition Is unattainable, as tha telegraph wires between Cheng; Tu and Chung- King have been rut. Tha capital of tha rebellious province la cut off from th ret of th world and th devenpmnta of the an-remoter an-remoter between the mob and soldiers ara unknown Tb fmlltlcal and economic Ills of China are not all. for her trou-Mea trou-Mea continue through the ravages of nature. Twenty-aeven rountle tn northern north-ern Aphwel and Klan Bu provinces hav hen devastated by tb floods of the un"ntrollahlA Tangfs. actwdlng t of-IVIal of-IVIal repona to tha American legation at Pektn. . Crnidlilona In th Yang tee valley are reported as vn mora appalling. Tha central government of China haa appro-- appro-- prlated Coa.aoo uel or about $4n.oon for relief purpoaea. hut that amount Is re- larded aa wholly Inadequate. |