Nanking Authorities Agreed an Insult Committed Which Must Not Pass Unpunished To-day's reports from Nanking} indiente that previous statements regarding the deliberate attacks on foreigners having been made by Cantonese soldiers who wore Customs mien, two in the Postal Service, three employees of the Nentsin-Pukow Railway and 13 business men from various British firms. tionably true. The believed to have and which has been the chief topic of comment in the press throughor: t the world.
That the British Consulate was made the special object of att tund its occupants subjected to intolerable indignities and eontinval throats of murder, two being killed, the Consul-General wounded, and his wife, two Indy assistants and other British subjects being continually threatened, was likewise confirmed Cly further authentic information obtainable yesterday.
Tt fs now evident that all Yangtze ports are ilkly to be evacuated and all merchant ships' movements will have to be convoyed by men-of-war ships are constantly being fired on at Kinngyin and Silver Island. The EN. S. Woosung is reported to have been set on fire on her recent trip to Nanking by a shell near Tungchow and subsequent rife fire from Kiangyin, The str. Pingwo brought 72 for-refugees from Chinkiang, from which place it is now reliably reported that all British residents have been evacuated, with the!
All Foreian Residents Looted
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