Show UPRISING IN CHINA chicago june 8 A special to the tribune from vancouver B C says passengers by the steamship empress of japan give a graphic description of the rebellion in kow loon when the empress passed up the coast from hong kong the passengers saw the smoking ruins of many villages burned by Britis hers as a warning t the rebellious seventeen thousand natives then in and so serious did affairs shape themselves on may 16 that the hong kong volunteers were called to the front the chinese simply chased from village to village with no show of resistance and ano villages burned A british surveying party while surveying the route of the bannan railway through china was attacked and roughly handled they fired their pistols tuto the air as a warning then charged the moti one chinaman was killed and ten wounded all tho they coulie capture alive were turned over to the governor of the prefecture with a demand that they be punished to the Britis hers surprise headmen wera we ra sent for while they waited and before they could their forces the prisoners heads were rolled into the has bets |