Los Angeles herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1890-1893, 1891-10-11
Details of the Recent Riot
In Ichang.
1t Was Not the Work of An
Un0rganized Mob.
Soldiers Committed the Outrages
Under Secret Orders.
Life and Property of Foreigners Not
Safe In China Unless the Rebel
Hous Hunanese Are Sup
pressed by Force,
Associated Press Dispatches.

SHANGHAI, China, Sept 12-The North
China Daily News says editorially:
.'There are points about the Ichang riot
of serious Importance. 1t was in no
sense the work of mob. There was
indeed pretext in the shape of child
said to have been kidnapped on the day
Of the riot, but this evidently was
merely subterfuge in order to give
shadow of an excuse for the outbreak.
Evidences that it was directed and car
ried out by soldiers, are too numerous.
The Chinese brigadier-general at Ichang
is great friend of foreigners, but he
was helpless in the presence of the or
ders which evidently came to his Human
soldiers, to destroy all the foreign prop
erty they could on that day. Where no
gunboat can so the position of foreign
ers, unless in numbers, is very
orders from their secret leaders,
rs at Ichang, they care nothing for their
officers. The central government is
powerless, for it has Human officials
everywhere, and the troops everywhere
.
disciplined force, and to order him
to suppress Human with these men, is
to start a civil war. The situation
is very critical, and the only solution is
for foreign force to overawe Human.
With the tacit eonnivance of the Chin
csc government, there will be no secur-
ity for foreign life or property in China,
unless the rebelious Hunanese are sup
pressed by force"
HAN Kow, China, Sept. 6.-The
steamer Pashua arrived here today with
Ichang refugees, twenty in all, all of
whom lost everything except the clothes
they wore at the beginning of the out
break. Several bore marks of serious
violence. The riot took place at broad
MONDAY, without warning or provoca-
ton. 1t was carried out by handful
of men evidently acting under orders,
in the presence of number of Chinese
officials who knew every one of the riot
ers. Then the mission of destruction
was carried out with the utmost speed.
That no lives were lost is almost en-
tirely matter of luck. The Scotch mis-
sionaries owe their escape to the fact
that they had gone boating on the river.
At news of the outbreak they hurried
back, and were just in time to rescue the
senior missionary's infant children and
escape when the mob arrived.
Roman Catholic sisters were thrown
over steep bank into the river, and
there stoned. They were rescued by the
Poahua. Several were badly injured.
As in former cases the telegraph clerks
refused to send on the news A full dis
patch to the Daily News at Shanghai
was refused without excuse on the day
of the riot and all foreign messages the
day after. On the third day, when all
possible damage had been done, the
military mounted guard over the
blackened ruins.
In ,Han-Kow things are stirring again.
Yesterday there was gathering of the
anti-foreign element here, including a
large number of officials. They resolved
that the foreigners must be driven
Immediately from the central pro-
vinces. The missionaries at Wa Chang
have received threatening placards or
dering them to leave at once or they
will be exterminated. The Taotai in
spected a nunnery today, making
search for bones, eyes, etc., of children
said to have been murdered by the sis
tiers.