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Show CHINA HORROR GROWS APACE Thousands Slaughtered In Uprising of Mutinous Troops SHANGHAI. June 21 (Correspon-j denco of The Associated Press Missionaries nnd others In touch wlthj the recent uprising of mutinous troops In Klangsl province declare that the full extent of this horror may never he known. A score of conimunlt centers wr' lji laid waste and thousands of Innocent inhabitants were slaughtered ruthlessly. ruthless-ly. No foreigners, however, were kill- i '''!' ed The words "bandit" and ".-toldler" virtually are synonymous In many parts of China and the people of th-country th-country long ago became accustomed I to uprisings of .. similar nature, but the Kiangsl Outbreak, In the unrestrained unre-strained loosing of evil forces and the' wanton slaughter an. I desl ruction, is s-ild to surpass anything of a like nature In the past decade STARTS MO(. TROOPS. The mutiny started among troops sent by General Wu Pel-Fu to block I Sun Yat Sen's advanci int., Kianasl I These forces, under Tsa: h n i I u n ' met defeat at the hands of Sun's southerners south-erners and In their retreat a few got; out of hand. The fever of revolt j spread quickly until between 10,000 nnd 15,000 men were Involved. Some of the dotnehments shot town their leaders who tried to keep Ihem In check. MISSIONARIES ESCAPE. The mutineers swept ovir the country, coun-try, looting, burning and killing, devastating de-vastating towns and rural communities Ike The city Of Kun I'u was almost al-most entirely wiped out and many hundreds of Its inhabitants slain. The lives of upward of one hundred foreign missionaries were In peril, but all escaped The principal centers destroyed de-stroyed were the cities of Klan Fu. Wananhs'.rn Lun' Chuan, and Talho. "hlle uyward of 20 smaller communities communi-ties also were damaged or wiped out. FIRE ON SHI PR CANTON July 14. (By The Associated Asso-ciated Press i Two Standard Oil '.larges flying the American flag were fired on In the river 'wo miles from l re by troops of Yip Kue, the opponent op-ponent of Sun Yat Sen. the depr.scd prMldenl of the South China republic About a hundred shots were fired, but the barges were not damaged |