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Show REBELLION!? CHINA LOYAL TROOPS DESPERATELY ENDEAVORING TO CRUSH AN UPRISING IN KWANGTUNG. Brigand Chiefs and Leaders of the Anarchists Take Advantage of the Situation to Murder and Pillage, Pil-lage, While There is Sedition Among Troops. Hngkong. Rebellion, brigandage and anarchy are stalking through the western half of Kwangtung province, and the loyal troops are fighting desperately des-perately to crush the uprising, the seriousness of which is revealed in further dispatches from Canton on Monday. Wu-Sum, a Chinese, who was educated in Japan and has adopted adopt-ed the dress of western countries, is the leader of the revolt against the Manchu dynasty. The brigand chief, Luk of Shun Tak, is at the head of a horde of outlaws whose object is robbery and murder. Following the standards of these men are anarchists, to whose purpose the present outbreak lends itself most advantageously. These combined forces have thrown themselves with fanatical disregard of their own lives against the troops, and since the first outbreak Thursday Thurs-day night much blood has been shed. Sedition is rife among certain of the troops and it is feared that the disaffected dis-affected soldiers will desert their officers of-ficers if the revolters, appear to have the upper hand. Official advices and the refugees arriving from Canton confirm the sinister sin-ister reports. Bodies of the slain lie in the streets of the city. Famine prices are asked for footstuffs and the shops generally are closing. In the panic there have been few attempts at-tempts to bury the dead and the stench from the decomposed bodies fills the air. |