Market Place Burned to the Ground From Our Own Correspondent, Mienchow Sze., Nov, 28 Things are quiet in the city, but enough is happening in the cities round about to prove that the province is as restless as ever. band of soldiers calling themselves Hanchun came down from Sungpan recently to the Lungan district. They attacked a market called Shuitsingpu, took the market and looted everywhere. They appropriated the rice, but threw the maize and wheat into the river. After this they set fire to the place.
Robberies are going on in all directions. This is the sort of thing that happens: Of ten women at a class one had just returned from a three weeks captivity with rob-bors, a second had a son carried off weeks ago, and a third had just been robbed. Again, a Christian family have been robbed of all their possessions, I Great Dama Japan Storm in Tokio, Dec. 9.
Tuesday's storm caused extensi damage to the naval station at Kure, breaking down 100 feet of breakwater, sinking 29 vessels laden with' pig iron and coal, and tearing from their moorings' and stranding the destroyers Isonami and Ayanami. A landslide in the neighbourhood of a naval gun shed broke down an embankment, causing several 12-inch guns to topple into the sea. The damage is estimated at Y.500,000.
The storm was most severe elsewhere. A naval tug proceeding from Tokuyama to Kure was sunk off Shinmenato: the fate of her crew is unknown. The Osaka Shosen Kaisha steamer Aichi Maru, while on her way from Osaka to Nagoya, was stranded near Shirasaki. The crew and_passen-Bers were saved in the life-boats.—Reuter.
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