Show CHINKS ON WARPATH THROW LOYALTY TO THE WINDS AND JOIN IN CA CAR R OF CRIME rioting results in murder ara Arao wa nand rapine buildings of foreigners being destroyed by fire and and U governor of province killed 4 Chang sha china all AH foreign ow owned n buildings in Chang sha hays have been destroyed by fire except the british consulate all the buildings rented by foreigners havo have been looted the chinese officials on thursday issued a proclamation that they were unable diable to protect lives and property ot of foreigners and thereupon all foreign erst left the city so tar far as known no tor for eten eign resident lost his life the governor of hu nan province aou and his son were killed and several other government officials fled six thousand foreign drilled soldiers are stationed here and a few of these protected the governors house for a time but soon all joined tho the rioters the riots began april 13 when the famine sufferer looted the the rice depots A captain of police was wounded trying to restore order thousands crowded around him and his assistants and he was obliged to flee to the yamen the rioters followed and besieged the place all night the following day the disturb disturbances inces became anti foreign the china inland mission and the norwegian and catholic missions were burned the other missions were destroyed april 15 16 the missionaries attached to the american episcopal missionary alliance tha ilia united evangelical church and the wesleyan and yale missions numbering forty one in all took rat refuge u ge in boats they left all their effects the tha destruction of all foreign property including the tha japanese consulate and the british warehouse followed the tha C chief h I 1 at cause of the rioting was the tha scarcity and high price of rice |