Hankow, Sept. 9.
Serious inter-communal riots took, place yesterday, owing to reports that, "Honan troops, defending Wuchang, were ill-treating Hupeh People inside the city.
More than a dozen Honan coolies have been beaten to death by mobs in Hanyang and in the Hankow native city.
There has "always been a very bitter feeling between these sections, the Honanese having had the upper hand during the Wa Pei-tu reginie, while now that the situation has switched over, the Hupeh people are exacting revenge—Reuter.
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