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Show MUTINOUS CHINESE HOLD LARGE CITY IN TERROR I SHANGHAI. Dec 10. iCorrespon-'dence iCorrespon-'dence of The Associated Press. After the looting and binning of the Important Impor-tant Yangt river port of Ichang by mutinous Chinese poldiers, the arrival of British. American. French and Japanese Jap-anese gunboats brought an end to the outbreak. The inf ubordlnaie soldiers held undisputed powBcsslon of the city, whn li nuinbora upward of -to.ooo p o-ple. o-ple. for more than five days Par three days vfter the outbreak telegraph service down the xangtese Was seriously interrupted. MosMuges that later found Lhelr way down th" thousand miles of river to the coast carried the information that about CO Chinese had been killed in tho insurrection insur-rection and that it was ended only when the Chinese chamber of commerce com-merce of Ichang had agreed to pay $100,006 to a Chinese offl er Commanding Com-manding the mutinous troop. It was stated that the ouMire.il de- V eloped because the troops had not paid for six months. Reports arc that Japanese were the J . principal sufferers among the foreign J population, which numbers upwards of , 100 persons. Offices of the Robert Dollar company, which operates a line jpf river steamers up the Yangtaze. 'were among the other foreign estab- PH llshiuents looted, according to reports J of the company's agent. The Stand-aid Stand-aid on company's office in the -tme J building was not damaged. J It is understood that, probably to avoid international complication forces were not landed from the gun-boats gun-boats wh n was found that foreign lives were not In danger and no fur- tho damage to foreign property was |