Reliable despatches. from Canton' state that 20,000 Communists, tal ing advantage of the absence of the troops along the West River, rose: to-day, disarmed the potice and took: complete control of the city. They fare now looting and burning wherever choy go.
The niembers of the government have all fled to the suburb of!
Honam, which hae not yet bean taken, So far there has been no sign of any anti-foreign disturbances in the! city.
Owing to intimidation the crews! lof the river steamers have refused to sail. An armed party of Briti sailors supported by H.M.S. Moothen. is assisting in moving the steamers Aw arrival from Canton reports, that a large fire in the vicinity of the power station there burnt throughout Sunday, Chinese gun-oats on the river, he declares, fired Jon the Bund.
"Reda" wrecked the Police Bureau, liberating prisoners, who augmented the looters and terrorists, "The gates of Shameen bridges are closed, 'A pamphlet fesued by the lend Jers of the revolution declares: "The Jcombined forees of the workers and peasants have finally taken over the feontrol of Canton City. The majorty of the participators in the rer volution are home-defence troops. The workmen's red corps, 6,000 strony, under the director of the red troops, captured the Public Pence Preservation Boreat at four o'clock the morning: Ue we occupied all anti-revolutionary administrative
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