It is hard to forecast where the certain to take place soon. It is said that some 1,£00 Northern soldiers stationed at Liu Kia Miao are to be disbanded on the 14th, each man receiving $20. There are rviaours of the expected rebellion of these soldiers. After the pillage at Wuchang, $3,000 was distributed among the native city soldiers at Hankow. Tt seems a rather poor system to make for peace—this business of paying the soldiers only after a pillage near by. Some soldier with more than ordinary brains ought to be able to establish a nation-wide organization for systematic looting, if it hasn't been done already.
Creanine Up te City.
Later.
About 4Q shops were burned absolutely to the ground in the area which was looted at Wuchang, They were just a mass of smouldering bricks and ashes. By this afternoon, however, all the d¢bris in the streets had been cleaned up, and the only thing that could be seen were piles of straw which were filled with incense and were being burned to clarify the atmosphere. All the bodies had been removed, also, and there were no heads hanging about. The hospitals, are filled with wounded, civilians in most cases, though there are about 40 looters there also who remained behind, after their comrades -had fled. in their greed for more loot, and were wounded severely. The wounds of all were very large as though guns had been thrust against them and fired. In the M. ©. A. building we saw a Chinese lying asleep on an improvised bed. He had lost some $20,000 when his shop was robbed and he had escaped by the back way in his night clothes. His night-clothes were all he had left.
The first foreigners to enter the city after the pillage were the American Consul-General, Mr. J. C. Huston, and the Rritish Vice-Consul, Mr. 5. Wyatt-Smith. They were refused admittance at the Hanyang gate and went on to the Wen Tsang gate, getting permission from the Governor to enter. All the missions except one were untouched. That was the Trinity School in Tsang Kai which was completely sacked. Miss Simpson, who was in charge escaped through the back door with the children' inst two minutes before the soldiers came in the front. Miss Simpson lost. all her personal property, clothing, and money.
Curvese Guxsoats Ustiss, It seems now that only one carload of looters were. murdered @t Siaokan out of the five that left Hankow and no one has been able to say where the others have gone. During the entire raid of the town four Chinese gunboats and two cruisers were lying off one of the gates, but they made no attempt to keep order.
Among the buildings ransacked and ruined, were those along the Tsang Kai, which is the principal ce
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