ENCLOSURE NO. 7.
Extract from the South China Morning Post
of 20.1.1927.
128
THE FOOCHOW OUTRAGES.
MISSIONARIES' GRAPHIC STORIES ON ARRIVAL HERE.
SERIOUS TROUBLE AT AMOY.
The full story of the wholesale looting of mission property and of the violent anti-Christian outbreak at Foochow last week end was told by the refugee missionaries who arrived in Hongkong yesterday by the Haiching. It is now learned that the Spanish Sisters' Orphanage was entered in the first place by students who demanded an investigation of conditions, alleging that orphans' eyes had been gouged out and sent to Europe for medicine. After that the mob overran the missions, looting everything of value, doing much damage to property and taking over some two hundred orphan children.
Further trouble arose at Amoy on Tuesday. Students travelled down from Foochow on the Haiching and at Amoy refused to let anyone leave or board the vessel, preventing the Consuls from going ashore until some of the Mission children who the sisters had brought with them had been handed over to them. In consequence of the buble at Amoy the Haiching missed Swatow owing to the possibility of further disturbances.
On Thursday military officers had visited the orphanage and expressed admiration of the work carried on: but soldiers were among the mob who carried out the raid on Friday and apparently the authorities made no effort to check them.
REFUGEES ARRIVE.
Twenty-eight Missionaries From Foochow.
AMERICAN, SPANISH AND FRENCH.
tative of the Spanish Dominican Procuration.
There were twenty-eight mis- sionaries on board, ten being men, five Americans and five Spanish.
The names of the American Dominican Fathers are: Rev. Fr. H. A. Burke, Rev. Fr. J. M. Barrett, Rev. Fr. Robt. E. Brennan, Rev. Fr. W. F. Cassidy, Rev. Fr. F. A. Gordon.
The following Spanish Domini- can Fathers were on board.-Rev. Fr. V. Garcia, Rev. Fr. A. de Celis, Rev. Fr. A. Luis, Rev. Fr. M.
Calvo, Rev. Fr. R. Giujano. a
When the steamer Haiching came alongside the Douglas Com- pany's wharf shortly after four o'clock yesterday afternoon, number of people had assembled to meet the refugee missionaries on board. Among these were M. de la Prade (Consul for France), Rev. Father Spada and a represen-
There were eighteen lady mis- sionaries, these being 10 Spanish Sisters, 2 Filipino Sisters, and 6 French Sisters.