Destructive work of the Southern Soldiers Fae Oux HAICHOW Conncsroxoext Tsingtao, July 1.
Later confirmatory letters from Haichow re the loot thereof and telling how difficult it was despatch a letter from there, repeated the same sentences: that all this sion property and buildings had been looted and destroyed by the "inhabitants of" of Haichow.
The continued word "inhabitants" always in quotation marks and doubly underscored still failed to give its real meaning til interpreted by an arrival from Haichow who declares that the looting was entirely the work of the Southern soldiers. Our. informant, goes into details showing that it case of Nanking over again, minus the opportunity to murder any foreigners. Not only were all houses except the hospital looted! but all doors, windows and floors, even attic boards, were ripped out. and carried away, What furniture was not suitable for the use of the looters was The party whose arrival reported in this morning's issue of ithe "Tsingtao Times" consisted largely of the employees of the Lunghai Railway, being Be possibly " few Russians, They succeeded in reaching. Haichow from Chengchow, and were half way. up the coast when a small boat full of deserters from the army pirated them. 'These ex-soldiers were armed with Mausers and swords and! resistance was futile. The travel-Jers lost all that they' had.
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