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CHINA MAIL EXTRA.
HONGKONG, 10TM JULY, 1870.
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Tientsin Massacre
Confirmed.
THE SISTERS OF MERCY TORTURED.
"CHINA MAIL" OFFICE, 8.15 P.M. THE following narrative of the horrible events at Tientsin is from the Courier of the 4th instant brought by the steamer Priam
THE TIENTSIN MASSACRE.
(From our Correspondent,}
TIENTSIN, 22nd June, 1870.
o'clock on the afternoon of the 21st. To and threatened, I may mention thrt ny show that the attack was premeditated 'workmen two miles or more from the scene of action said to me on seeing there, that Englishmen had nothing to fear for the attack was only on the French. Whether the Chinese apprehended immediate retri- bution or not I cannot say, but hardly a The account given in the Evening Courier man was to be seen in the Settlement after of June 16th, of proceedings at Nankin, the first fire took place; on the following would be an accurate description of the day labor was partially resumed.-22nd, preliminary part of our troubles here con- To-day H. E. Chung-How met the Conents nected with missionary matters; the same at the house of the Commissioner of Cus- story of kidnapping children, of the mis- toms. He seemed bewildered, and inti- sionaries purchasing them and taking out mated that the day's work had made him a their eyes for medicine, &c., the same know- poor man, and that he would now be res ledge of the authorities of what was going ponsible for the lives of foreigners; at the on, the same (apparent) indifference on same time he offered to send down a guard their part to the probable consequences of six hundred soldiers. But the British were conspicuously displayed here for some Consul strongly objected to any such step, time before the massacre, Threatenings of while another gentleman, a Consul for this kind had become so frequent that to more than one Treaty Power, and at a certain extent they came to be treated the same time occupying the anomalous like the cry of Wolf! Wolf! in the fable, position of paid servant of His said Ex- so that when the sad reality did come cellency, was for leaving everything no one was prepared. The first intima- as in duty bound to His Excellency tion we had of trouble to our friends The foreign reesiden's from the first took in the city was the sight of Fire, which steps to preotect themselves, and during proved to be caused by the burning of the the last two nights have kept watch and French Cathedral and Consulate adjoining, guard. The Manchu was fortunately here, and the premises of the Sisters of Mercy and by the kindness of her Agent and Cap. some half-mile nearer the foreign Settle tain, was a refuge for all who might require nient. Almost immediately after news it, and is to remain here until another reached us of the murder of three fore gu- steamer of the same company arrives. era; and, a little later, we heard of the The Appin also arrived here to-day; so that terrible deaths of no less than fifteen to. if an attack ou the Settlement takes place eighteen foreigners, all of whom were the two steamers could protect all foreigners. French, and including the Consul, Fon- The Dragon left Taku on the morning of tanier; M. and Madame Thomassin who the 22nd with the Queer, a dismasted ves- had only arrived a day or two before en sel, in tow and with news of the attack here route for Peking; the Chancellor, M. which overtook her at Taku, and with in- Simon; a Jesuit father M. Chevrier, aud,structions from the British Consul for the saddest of all, the poor Sisters of Mercy, Opossum gun-boat to come on here from nine in number. To them indeed no Chefoo. mercy was shown: the cruel outrages This morning early, three foreignera, Mr.
horrible even to upon them are
re- Cox, British, and Messrs. Cordes and Spel- lates; their clothes are said to have been ling, North German subjects, came down to torn off them, their bodies stabbed and the settlement from the city. This morning ripped open, their breasts cut off, and also a Chinaman was found in the steeple or their eyes dug out. To crown all, the tower of the Protestant church built on the Chinese report this morning that all that is Mission ground, close to the settlement, left of them are two charred masses, some with balls of combustible materials for the distance apart, and quite impossible to be apparent purpose of firing the church. In- recognised. Truly a crown of martyrdom ring the day a Chinaman in the settlement have they received from the ungrateful was found with a revolves up his sleeve, people in whose service and for whose wel who finding he was being caught succeeded fare they lives were being spent here. M. in throwing the weapon into the river. Both and Madaine Chalmaisin, French, are also these Chinese have been banded over to the said to have been killed while attempting native authorities. to reach the foreign Settlement. Three Russian subjects, Mr. and Mrs. Protopopoff and Mr. Basoff met with the same fate on the other sido of the river close to the Salt Stacks which are near the foreign Sttlement, while on their way from the city to the Settlement. The above took place about 2
28rd.-This morning there was found in the river, quite fresh, the bodies of the two Russians before named, man and wife,
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Also, the writer might have added, a well- pen newspaper correspondent. Ed. E. C.
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