Soochow, Oct. 6 Daring the past two weeks there been rice riots in practically all of the the local-government societies and the schools have been the chief objects red. [tis said that all the schools een closed, professor and boys were forcibly urged to forsake the path of the new learning, the queueless atadents being the chief sufferers, The farmers say that through the hated foreigners the railways have come, and on account of the railways, the taxes and cost of living have been The officials are patting down the note with " heavy hand, and io almost every case some of the rioter re been abet, Many of the rioters, who are now io gaol, will probably lose their Along the canals boats are p by day as well as by night, and the robberies here io the city seem to have greatly increased in nambers. The authorities will have their hands fall before the winter is over.
Chungking), to try and get messages through, With the exception of Dr. Davidson, and Silcock and their fami lies, Mre. Simpkio, Mrs. Ritchie an her children and Mr. Forrester, all of whom got away on the morning of the 7th by boat for Chungking, the whole of the foreiga residents at Ciéogta remain la the city. The consols are at their respective kungkuans. The ley French men and women are at the French Consvlate, the few Ger. mans at the German Copsalate, the: French priests and sisters at their' Bishop's, mile the rest of the community, Canadian Mission Compound in the Saebeogtzo, except, T ought to 147 Rite Bates, who are The refugees at the C.M.M., about 100 women and child: include Messrs, England, Stericker, snd Rowntree of the British and American Tobaces Ca., and Cnrsbon and Poletti of the I.C.P.0., also the O.M.M. sionaries from Peobsien. molested salted and all are No foreigners have so far been
Teichman. sai tent, la de beck from a month's leave to-day, bu got a note 2 e dotaio bim The a sate of none, bat since the events of September 7 the has boon no fighting within the wal Qn the 7th, the Governor-General empty tin, surrounded by unopened tins of apy kind of stores, groceries, eto., for which of course I will pa copies of all telegrams, and.ny second opportunity of forwarding them. I will not apologize for troubling you, because I am sure you will be moat ready to help us.
My telegrams of September 9 to Pekiog and Chuogking were stopped Ch'atintza (Ch'atientze 2) by insur-
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