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Show ance are also rtnorted trom Tunnau and Annul and Kwangal provinces. Tho French are assisting; the Chinese Chi-nese authorities in Yunnan, where many insurgents recently crossed crossed from Tonkin to augment the antl-dynaetic forces. Ia the south, the. moHl severe riots are reported frou. Annang, W'uchou and Llnchou, where fighting continued for several days. The rioters were well armed and opposed op-posed the military forces resolutely, killing 40 and wounding 160 In one engagement. Much distress is reported from Hu-peh Hu-peh and Hunan, where famines arc threatened. More than 4,000 refugees reached Ylnglkow shortly before the Kumeric sailed. They had no means of sustenance and the government officials of-ficials were arranging to forward them, to the Amur district in accordance with a scheme to nettle tho Russian, frontier with Chinese. UPRISING FEARED IN PARTS OF CHINA Victoria, B. C. August 5. News was brought by the 'steamer Kumeric, which arrived yesterday from the Orient, that much alarm nas been Ov.-, casloned In pekln by the discovery of, revolutionary plots aimed at the assassination as-sassination of the Prince regent. Bombs have been shipped as merchandise mer-chandise from Japan. The palace guards arrested a supposed revolutionist revolu-tionist lurking in the palace, and tho following day a threatening letter wrapped about a dagger, which had been thrown over the wall, was found addressed to the prince regent. It said that the prince would be killed unl?B a payment waa granted. Guards of soldiers have been sent to the residences resi-dences of each Chinese minister. From Shinlung news of disturbances w'ere brought Following the failure of crops there was a rising at.Tal-yang at.Tal-yang and 2,000 troops were sent to suppress the rloiers, while. Germany sent a cruiser to Halyang, the nea est accessible point, and the German railroad Is conveying Chinese troops to the neutral zone. Other disturb- |