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Show CHINA, THROUGH POVERTY. FACES GREAT UPRISING Victoria. I). C,., Sept. 15. A. H. Little, Lit-tle, British consul at I-Chang, who arrived by the Pacific liner Awa Maru from tho scone of tho uprising In Sze-chuen, Sze-chuen, believes that because of the facilities now possessed by China for collecting troops and the usunl lnck of cohesion'amorig Insurgents, the disturbance dis-turbance will soon be suppressed. .Mr. Llttlo said mat the river steamer steam-er on which he Journoved to Hanlcow often steamed ovor fields some distance dis-tance from the river, the great floods having made the countryside Into a huge lake, drowning many thousands of persons. He says a groat famine, surpassing the worst known heretofore, hereto-fore, probably will resut Shanghai newspapers report a great wave of unrest and much antl-foreign feeling prevalent In Kansu province, whore posters' hro being circulated stating that Uib forolgn governments aro plarfning to dlvldo China, America alono being unfavorable to this plan. Tho people aro called upon to riso and slay foreigners. |