It must not be supposed, how-military dress and with bundles of! loot on their shoulders and pockets ever, that this particular Brigade was the sole cause of disorder—stuffed with silver and paper money, they crossed the river and there are unmistakable evidences made for one of the railway! of a general, systematic, organized pillaging. Just about the same stations, to get away north, or else time that the South Lake men scattered in little groups here and. there. Some few who ventured on! broke out, the men in the large the Concession had a warm wel-camps of the Left and Right come from the Concession Chinese Standards, inside the city, between police, who belaboured them un-the Big East Gate and T'ung mercifully and deprived them of; Hsiang Gate, filed down by twos their loot. and threes to the Long Street and began work. The were led in several cases by men in civilian dress. Every small party had at Troors To Matntars Orver. least one man with a rifle, one Hankow, June 9. i with a lantern, and one to carry This morning at 4, the 2nd Hupeh the booty. Practically every shop Brigade arrived at' Wuchang from 42°. Yisited—tefusal to open the Putse and is doing its best to main-loot or any attempt to hinder tain order and peace. The proceedings, usually met with in-Charber of Commerce here has instant death to the—offender. contributed $100,000, which has Several fine shops in the Long been distributed among the military Street were burnt to the ground. guards on the occasion of the!
Miss Simpson, head mistress of Dragon Boat Festival. Martial law has been proclaimed in Honan.—Eastern News Agency.
June 10.
Fifteen thousand dollars, 59 shoes of silver, and three hundredweight of copper-cash, together with quantities of jewellery and silk have been taken from the looters in the British Concession. It is further jthe American Church Mission Trinity School, with her two assistant teachers and all the ise jolars, effected an escape by the back door just as the soldiers entered at the front. Miss Simpson, however. lost all her money. clothes and other possessions, for the' building was completed sacked by the marauders. The whole of the' Curio Street, too, running into the Long Street by the Foreign Language School, was entirely burnt. down.
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