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pursued through the streets, leaving the Yamen in flames.
The sturdy defence made by his guard and the ignorance
of the attacking party as to the exact locality of the
Governor General's quarters afforded His Excellency an op-
portunity, of which he made good use, to break a hole in
the Yamen wall and escape with his family to the neighbour-
ing residence of Admiral Li.
Spasmodic firing recurred in the city during Thursday
night and Friday forenoon. The city gates were closed all
day on Friday while troops, numbering between one and two
thousand men, searched the streets and houses.
Revolution-
aries when captured were immediately put to death and an
official estimate puts the number of killed at nearly 200.
His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, at the request
of the Governor General who feared the arrival of additional
reinforcements for the revolutionaries, stopped all steamers
coming from Hongkong until he found that it was inexpedient
to continue the prohibition. Similarly railway traffic
was stopped except for Government purposes.
The wives and
children
children of the railway employés at Tung Shan are being
sent to Hongkong in case of further disturbances.
Two of the city gates were opened all day on
Saturday to allow legitimate traffic to pass through
and the streets were quiet.
unchanged on Sunday the 30th.
The situation remained
residents in the city in danger.
At no time were foreign
Disturbances engineered by local rowdies took
place on Sunday at Fatshan. Troops were at once drafted
from the city and order again prevails.
hunting down of revolutionaries which is still going
Owing to the
on, spasmodic excitement occurs from time to time in
the localities searched.
Excitement of this kind in
the neighbourhood of Shameen and the steamer wharves
caused His Majesty's Consul-General to land a naval
guard at both points this afternoon but Mr. Jamieson
is in no wise apprehensive of serious danger.
May 1st, 1911.