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been for some time part of the serious conflicts between two hostile tribes, the Puntis and Hakkas, which although the attention of the Provincial Governments has been called to the Disturbances existing, and the cruelties Committed, it has been powerless to terminate the lawless state of affairs
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In a walled town, called Tai-po-san About 15 miles from the well known Island of St John's.
A large body of Hakkas (who are inferior in number) had taken refuge, and here they were attacked by the Punties, indiscriminately Massacred, and the Survivors literally driven into the Sea. Some Foreign Lovers
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were lying off the place on the 6th Instant when the final attack was made, and there succeeded in saving several thousands, of whom some 3,000, including about 800 women and Children, were brought to this Colony as a place of security. The owner of one of
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the Vessels, a Merchant of Swatow, accompanied by a German Missionary who had lived among these people, and was interested in their fate, represented to me their houseless and penniless condition.