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Show BOLIDERS THROW LOYALTY TO THE WINDS AND JOIN IN CARNIVAL CAR-NIVAL OF CRIME. Rioting Results In Murder, Arson and Rapine, Buildings of Foreigners Being Destroyed by Fire and Governor of Province Killed Changshn, China. All foreign own' ed buildings in Chnngsha havo been destroyed by fire, except tho British consulate. All the buildings rented by foreigners havo been looted. Tho Chinese officials on Thursday issued a proclamation that they wore unable to protect lives and property of foreigners, for-eigners, and thereupon nil foreigners loft the city. So far a3 known, no foreign for-eign resident lost his life. The governor of Hu Nan province, Won Tchung Slu, nnd his son wore killed nnd soveral other government officials fled. Six thousand foreign drilled soldiers nre stationed here and a few of these protected tho governor's govern-or's house for a time, but soon all Joined the rioters. The riots began April 13, when the famine sufferers looted tho the rice depots. A captain of police was wounded trying to restore re-store order. Thousands crowded around him and his assistants, nnd he was obliged to flee to tho Ynmen. Tho rioters followed and besieged tho place all night. Tho following day tho disturbances became anti-foreign. Tho China Inland mission and the NorweKlan and Cath olic missions wore burned. Tho other missions were destroyed April 15. The missionaries attached to tho American Episcopal missionary alliance, the United 'Evangelical church and the Wesleyan and Yalo missions, numbering number-ing forty-ono In all, took rofugo in boats. They left all their effects. The destruction, of all foreign' property, Including In-cluding the Japanese cpnaulate and tho British warehouse, followed. The chief causo of tho rlotiijg was tho scarcity and high price of rice. |