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Show TUF PHINFCF Foreigners Are Held at Cheng Tu Where Fighting Is on London, Sept 13. A news dispatch received hero today from Tsu-Chau says that the prefect of police there has attempted to communicate with Chen Tu by mossengors, but that the latter were unable to get through tho lino of rioters who were attacking the city at four points. Troops, tho dispatch adds, line the walls of Cheng Tu, defonding the city. Tsu-Chau is seventy-five miles southeast of Cheng Tu, capital of tho province of Szo Chuen, In which district dis-trict the rebellion has, occurred, and Tsu Chan ls nearer the capital than any other point from which news of the rebellion has been sent to the outside world since Septembor 9 It Is about half way between Cheng Tu and Sul Fu, whore the British refugees ref-ugees were reported as having arrived ar-rived safely This afternoon the foreign office received advices from the British consul con-sul at Cheng Tir, dispatched under date or Soptembor 9. They state that there was fighting within the walls of Cheng Tu on Scptomber 7, when some persons were killed and others wounded, both among the populace and the soldiers, who engaged each other In tho streets. The rebels were easily eas-ily repulsed and tho gates of tho city closed. The shops were shut up. On tho following day roughs from the suburbs attacked the city gates, but were driven back. The advices add that the American and British residents of Cheng Tu-who Tu-who did not leave the city on September Septem-ber 7, still remained in tho capital when the dispatch was sent as tho governor general refused to permit them to leavo on September S, owing to the presence of the rabble outsido the walls. The French missionaries ha'd decided to remain In the city. The mall servlco to and from Cheng Tu has been interrupted. Peking, Sept. 13. A telegram received re-ceived today from the British consul at Cheng Tu, dated September 9, and brought through the besieging rabble by a messenger, states that the viceroy vice-roy deemed tho departure of the missionaries from Cheng Tu as Inadvisable In-advisable and, therefore, detained five boat loads which wcro starting. Troops, the message says, were firing fir-ing on tho besiegers from tho city walls. The garrison numbers 1,800. Reinforcements Rein-forcements cannot arrive Inside of four weeks. All of the foreigners, it Is believed, occupy the Canadian mission mis-sion compound, which is considered tho most easily defended. |