The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-07-26
(By Associated Press)

SHANGHAI, July 26-Following up
on outbreaks of mutinous soldiers in
which several hundred Chinese were
killed, property worth millions was de-
stroyed and large portions of two i'm
portant cities were burned, a wave of
general alarm spread swiftly through
all the length of the great Yangtsze
valley in the month of June and while
/. measures of various kinds were being
discussed at Picking, communities
along the Yangtsze were adopting
measures TO defend themselves.
More or less unrelated to sinister
political conflicts that were brewing in
widely separated parts of China the
first detection of Chinese troops took
place in the province of Hupeh at
lchang. city of about 10000 inhabit-
ants located a thousand miles from
the coast. Six months before, in No
Vember last, the Ichang garrison mutt
med and after an attack on the city
IN which about 60 Chinese were killed
the soldiers looted a part of the city
and burned down portions of it.
Military Shoot Civilians.
In the second outbreak which began
on the night of June 4, more than 100
persons were shot down by the sol
dlers, virtually every Chinese home
and shop in the city was looted and a
determined effort was made to destroy
the entire city by fire. Several foreign
business establishments were looted
and burned and an attack was made
upon the residence of the Japanese
Consul.
The outbreak of last November de-
veloped, according to report, because
the soldiers had been unpaid for a
period of months. Reports from up
the 1angtsze say that the recent
mutiny grew out of conflicts between
opium raiders and soldiers who have
Deen trafficking in the drug.
Two American companies that suffer
Cd loss in the recent uprising are the
standard Oil company, whose agen-
cles were looted and the Robert Dollar
company. whose officers were wrecked
after they had been looted All the
government Offices of the port were
sacked and the buildings occupied by
the lchang branch of the Bank of China
ana Young Brothers Banking corpor-
atlon were burned after they had been
looted. IT was estimated that property
losses viii run over $2,000,000.
Foreigners Unframed.
Though American, British and jap
anese guHboats were dispatched to
lchang when the first reports of the
outbreak were received it was report
ed that there was little for them to
DO after they arrived as the disturb
dnces had then subsidized So far as is
known none of the fifty-odd foreign
residents OF lchang suffered injury.
Inc second mutiny of Hopeh troops
followed closely upon that at Ichang
and took place on the night of June Z
at Wuchang, capital of the province.
which is located directly across the
fdngtsze from the important city of
Hankow. Orders for the disarmament
of the Wuchang troops that had been
Issued by Wang Chuan-yuan, military
governor Of the province, are said to
have displeased the soldiers and this
led to the outbreak.
though Hankow across the river has
large foreign population with manv
foreign commercial interests. there is
little or no foreign activity in WI
chang. In the uprising the Wuchang
mint was wrecked and looted of every.
thlng 1t contained, including a large
number of gold and silver bars. but no
attacks were made upon the quarters
OF the military governor. Hundreds of
SHOPS and homes were stripped and a
considerable portion of the CITY was
swept away in the numerous fires that
were started
Oisperse Troops. ,
on the second day after the outbreak
When semblance of order had been
restored in Wuchang, Chinese authori-
Ties set about dispensing troops that
had oeen active in the mutiny by load
ing them on TO trains and sending them
10 distant points from the CITY. The
authorities deemed it the part of wis
dom to permit the soldiers to take
their loot with them. The first train
load, however, proceeded only to
Siaokan. a short distance north of
HankoW. After it had been sidetracked
at this point battery of machine guns
manned by forces that had been con-
cedled among the track, SPRAYED the
coaches with fire and it is thought that
every soldier on the train was killed.
According TO reports of the incident
q number of soldiers who sought to
escape from the coaches were bayonet-
ted or shot down. 1t is estimated that
go were killed. Another trainload of
troops sent out of Wuchang was halted
at S1nyangchow in Honan and the sol |
dters were stripped of all the booty
they had carried away from Wuchang
by Honan troops.
On the day after the Wuchang up |
rising, by orders of the military COVER. |
nor the sum OF SIC 900 was distributed
10 the troops III Ilankow and they
were placated with gifts and conces- |
sions that were granted to them.
The alarm that was felt in Hankow |
quickly spread to Marking, capital of |
kiangsu province. and even to Shang- |
hal, as it was reported that back pay
due TO the kiangsu troops amounted to |
S2,000.000 and that they were showing |
signs of unrest.
Though no fears were entertained of |
disturbances at Shanghai, a significant !
incident that followed the outbreaks in |
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