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Show ANTI-MISSIONARY RIOTSJPREADING Pekin, April 21. The lawlessness of the natives, which began at Chang-sha, Chang-sha, the capital of the Huu.in province, prov-ince, Is reported to be spreaJlng. Advices received -i here stite that riots have occurred at Ningsiang, the site of a Protestant mission, about thirty miles west of Changana. A mission school at Yl Yang, twenty miles north of Ningsiang, has b en burned. The foreigners nr9 sttul to have escaped without harm. Foreign residents at Yo Chow wore preparing to leave that piice ?ast night These reports are coupled wi'h ine statement that a wholesale desertioa of the troops has occurred. One report Is that the Chiueso cruiser, which recently arrived at Changsha, Is guarding the foreign settlements there. |