Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-18
20 OHINAMEN KILLED
SERIOUS RIOT Ar SHANGHAI
BUSINESS SUSPENDED.

NEW YORK, December 1S.--A serious riot
among coole laborefs. resulting In the death
of twenty Chinese and injury of severaI
foreigners. occurred at Shanghai China
today, according to a cabiegram received
by Fearon, Daniel & Co. of this city fram
their Shanghai office.
The cablegram says: "Rioting by coo!ie
classes. Business suspended Two police
stations burned. About twenty Chinese
killed. few foreigners injured. Marine vol
unteers restoring order. Further trouble
and fires anticipated tonight
American Vice Consul Injured.
Special Cablegram to The Star
SHANGHAI December 1S.-There was in
cipient rioting here today, organized by the
leaders of the anti-foreign boycott.
The German consul was stoned by the
rioters, and the American vice consul was
injured. The foreign warships are landing
men, and the volunteers have been called
out. Chinese shops have been closed
The State Department has been informed
that dangerous condition exists in Shang-
nal, growing out of the strike there and of
connect between the international mixed
court and the municipal authorities There
mas peen much rioting and two foreigners
nave peen killed. A naval force, supposedly
from the British squadron at that port, has
been landed and is guarding the consulates
ana foreign settlements. Two United States
cruisers are on their way to Shanghai
Inc state departments information of
these events was contained in several dis
patches from Shanghai, the last of which
was received about 3 o'clock this morning
from Consul General Rodgers. It is gath
eFed that the moving causes for the riots
were the ant1-Anerican boycott and gem
erai feeling of hostility toward foreigners
such as preceded the dreaded Boxer uprjs-
ing OF 1900. So it appears that if any trade
conpetator OF the United States did, as was
at one time intimated, secretly encourage
the anfi-American boycott In the hope Of
Fronting thereby they have overshot the
mark and now share in the Chinese feeling
Americans. ~
Mr. Rodgers statement was that all busi-
ness was suspended among the Chinese:
that as an incident to the general strike a
number of foreigners had been assaulted
volunteers had been called out, presumably
from the people in the foreign settlements
whose EFFORTS at maintaining order were
seconded by English marines. The war;
snips In the harbor were cleared for action
AT the time of the sending of the first dis
patch, probably some time last night, two
Chinese had been killed in the riots and the
UEited States consul general had Telegraph
ell for help from the United States naval
vessels
A later dispatch from the same source re-
ported the continuance of the riotous con-
ditlons, adding that the police stations had
been burned and a number of people killed
probably about thirty, including some for
eigners. No Americans, however, had been
harmed up to that moment, and the streets
were being guarded by the volunteers and
the naval forces. Mr.. Rodgers last word
was that he expected the United States
cruiser Baltimore, which was yesterday at
Chihkiang, about a days run from Shang-
hal, to reach that place tonight.
Promoted by Boycotters.
SHANGHAI, December 1s.-The incipient
riot here was promoted by boycotters on
account of an incident involving the mixed
court. The German consul was stoned and
the American vice consul and several other
foreigners were attacked and injured
The Chinese closed their shops when the
rioting began. The local volunteers were
called out to restore order and detachments
of blue jackets were landed from the war
ships to assist in restoring peace
Mobs Looting in City.
LONDON. December 1s.-A dispatch to
the Evening Standard from Shanghai says:
During the rioting carriages and motor
cars We're smashed. Mobs are looting In
several parts of the city There are sounds
of sharp firing in the neighborhood Of the
town hall and on the Shanking road which
bisects the central district of the foreign
settlement"
An Anti-Foreign Boycott.
LONDON, December 1S.-A cable dispatch
received by a business house in London this
afternoon said that the anti-foreign boycott
disturbances at Shanghai, which were said
to have resulted in the stoning Of the Ger
man consul and the injuring of the Ameri-
can vice consul, had been suppressed.