New Britain herald., 1921-07-26
CHINESE UPRISING
 IS A BLOODY TALE
Troops Loot Homes; Machine Guns Kill Trainload.

Shanghai, July 26-Fc!lowing upon 1 outbreaks of mutinous soldiers in | which several hundred Chinese were killed, property worth millions was destroyed and large portions of two important cities were burned wave { Of general alarm spread swiftly l through all the length of the great l Yangtsze valley in the month of June | and while measures of various kinds were being discussed at Picking, com munities along the Yangtsze were adopting measures to defend them selvees
 | More or less unrelated to sinister political conflicts that were brewing in widely separated parts of China the first defection of Chinese troops took place in the province of Hupel at 1chang, a city of about 10000 in habitants located thousand miles ! from the coast. Six months before, In November last, the Ichang garrison mutined and after an attack on the city in which about 60 Chinese were lkilled the soldiers footed a part of the |
 In the second outbreak which be- gan on the night of June more than a hundred .perons were shot down by the soldiers, virtually every Chinese home and shop in the city was footed I and a determined effort was made to | destroy the entire city by fire. Sev- l eral foreign business esta blishme ents l were footed and burned and an attack I Was made upon the residence of the Japanese consul.
 1 The outbreak of last November de- veloped. according to report, beause the soldiers had been unpaid for a period of months. Reports from up tho Yangtsze say that the recent mu- tiny grew out of conflicts between | opium raiders and soldiers who have been traff1cktng in the drug.
 l Two American companies that suf- l fered loss in the recent uprising are the Standard Oil company, whose ] agencies were footed and the Robert Dollar. company whose offices were wrecked after they had been footed. All the government offices of the port were sacked and the buildings oc- cupied by the Ichang branch of the Bank of China and Young Brothers Banking corporation were burned af-
 
 timated that property losses will run considerably over $2,O00,0O0.
 Though American, British and Jap- anese gunboats were dispatched tc Ichang when the first reports of the
 outbreak were received it was report ed that the was little for them to dc
 after they arrived as the disturbances z had then su bsided So far as ia knowr
 none of the fifty-odd foreign resident. of Ichang suffered injury.
 The second mutiny of Hpeh troop. followed closely upon that at Ic1ans : and took place on the night of June at Wuchang, capital of the prov : ince. which is located directly acros. 7 the Yangtsze from tho important city of Hankow.. Orders for tho ,disband.
 ment of. the Wuchang troops that hat
 been issued by Wang Chuan-yuan military governor of the province, arr 3 said to have disp1eased the soldier . and this led to tho outbreak.
 ] Though 'Hankow5 across the rive f has at large foreign population witl
 many foreign. commercial interest! e there Is little. or TO foreign activit. in Wuchang. In the uprising the wu n chang mint was wrecked and loote, n | of everything 1t contained, includinl
 
 , bars, but no attacks were made upol
 the quarters of the military governor Hundreds of shops and homes wer
 stripped and a considerable portion of the .city was swept away in tn /. numerous fires that were started. . On tho second day after tho out :. break when a semblance of order hal :. been restored in Wuchang Chimes | authorities set about dispersin : troops that had been active in tn . mutiny by loading them onto train
 and sending them to distant point 5 from the city. The authorities deem . ed it. the part of wisdom to permi
 the soldiers to take their loot wit them. The first trainload. howevel proceeded only to Siaokan. a shor distance north of Hankow After
 had been sidetracked at this point
 battery of machine guns manned b
 forces that had been concealed anon e the tracks sprayed the coaches wit IS fire and 1t is thought that every sol a dier on the train was killed.
 e. According to reports of the incid ,e ent a number of soldiers who sough d to escape from the coaches were bay onetted or shot down. It is estimat . ed that $50 wera killed Anothe
 trainload of troops sent out of Wu chang was halted at sinyangchow i c Honan and tho soldiers were strippe of all the booty they had carrie
 away from Wuchang by Hona
 troops.
 n On tho day after the Wuchang up n rising, by orders of tho military gov
 ernor the sum of $13,0oo was dis tributed to the troops in Hankow an
 they were placated with gift1 anr