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THE ANTI-MISSIONARY OUTRAGES AT KUCHENG, NEAR FOOCHOW,
IN THE PROVINCE OF FUHKIEN (CHINA)
ON THE 1ST AUGUST, 1895.
THE FIRST NEWS.
The first news respecting the terrible massacre of British missionaries" at Kucheng, near Foochow, on the 1st August, 1895, reached this colony in the form of a telegram from the Hongkong Telegraph's special correspondent at Shanghai. It was received here shortly before noon on the 3rd instant, and its contents were promptly circulated throughout the city as an “Extra” and subsequently sppeared in the columns of the Telegraph as follows:--
(Special to Hongkong Telegraph.)
ANTI-FOREIGN RIOTS IN
FURKIEN.
TERRIBLE MASSACRE OF CHRISTIANS.
FIVE XUROPRAN LADIES REPORTED KILLED.
SHANGHAL, August 3rd.
11.10 1.31.
News has just reached here by wire from Foochow to the effect that anti-foreign rints have occurred in the city of Kucheng, in the province of Foakien, that scores of native Christians have been killed and that five missionary ladies have been mobbed and slain.
The Consuls stationed at Foochow have wired particulars to their respective Ministers at Peking,
OTHER SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.
The sad news of the 3rd was followed by other telegrams to the Hongkong Telegraph which were published as follows :~~
SHANGHAI, August 5th. 11.30 am,
Full particulars of the anti-missionary riots at Kucheng, in the province of Fuhkien, are now to hand. From them it appears that the attack commenced at Kucheng on Thursday last and was carried on with great determination and tenible ferocity for upwards of 48 hours.
The Reverend R. W. Stewart, his wife, son, and European maid, the Misses Gordon, New- combe, Marshall, Stewart and Miss M. Saunders and her sister were killed during the first onslaught.
In addition to these murders it appears that four other ladies were seriously wounded,
Some of the victims were burnt to death in their houses while others were hacked to pieces with swords and succumbed to the effects of scores of wounds inflicted by heartless ruffians armed with spears and spikes.
As soon as news of these massacres reached Fochow, Marshall W. C. Hixson, attached to the United States Consultate at Foochow, accompanied by the Venerable Archdeacon John R. Wolle, of the English Church Missionary Society, and the Rev. W. Banister, of the same Mission, proceeded to the scene of the riots. They travelled in a steam launch and succeeded In bringing back to Foochow the bodies of the murdered missionaries and the survivors who
LATEST NEWS FROM FOOCHOW. had, of course, been rendered homeless by the
ANOTHER ADDITION TO THE DIATH ROLL,
FOOCHOW, August 11th, 1 p.m. The late Reverend and Mrs. Stewart's baby, 13 months old, whose skull was fractured during the recent massacre of English missionaries at Kacheng, has succumbed to the frightful injuries a seceived at the hands of the moo and wisi be buried in the cemetery at this port this evening. Miss Mildred Stewart, aged 12, is in a very Critical condition,
mob.
An indignation meeting is to held at Shanghai this evening to protest emphatically against soch outrages, move a resolution to be immediately wired to the British Minister at Peking, and condole with the missionaries.
LATER.
It is now officially stated that ten missionaries wore murdered at Kucheng and that four indien are seriously wounded.
The U.S. Consul at Foochow has been very active in the matter of causing the Chinese