Later.
The day is somewhat later now, and the doings of the rebellious soldiers in their Jast night's running amok are better known. The real cause of the trouble is not yet known, but they did not leave the city without taking something with them.
When the firing shifted to the east and the north it was from the business section of the south suburb, which was in part looted. The miscreants started in to clean out a cash shop against which they had an ancient grudge, and which they had had on their list for some time. When this was finished they did not stop there, however, but: went on to clean out about 15 shops. I am glad to say that no one was killed in the looting.
There is one feature of the unhappy affair that ought not to go unpublished. There are thousands of soldiers and hundreds of the city's police, and yet so far as can learn, there was not one company to turn out to sce what the trouble was and to protect the lives and property of the defenceless people. This is an unhappy fact, and the happier one that no lives were lost is due v0 Providence alone.
Kaifeng, June 21.
Two hundred soldiers last night looted the south suburbs. Many: shops were robbed and it is reports ed that some people were wounded. The firing lasted an hour. The bullets whistled over the houses occupied by foreigners, but no fors eigners were molested. The troops stationed in south suburbs, numbering 10,000, did not make any attempt to prevent the looting. The situation is serious unless tha authorities take drastic steps im+ mediately.—Reuter.
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