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authorities to send troops to the scene of the
riots and assisting in the rescue of the survivors.
(Kochang is situated about ren miles N.N‚W. of Foochew,]
INDIGNATION MEETING AT SHANGĦAL
SHANGHAI, August 6th, Nood.
A public indignation meeting was held here last night in the “Astor Ħall under the auspices of the China Association. Mr. R. M. Campbell presided and the bullding was packed with leading residents of various nationalities, chiefly British, American, German and French.
The meeting was the largest gathering of Europeans ever held in Shanghal.
The following resolution was carried unani- mously →→
"Resolved to appeal to our respective Govern- ment for protection fi im outrage by Chinese and against the apparently inadequate manner in which the persons guilty of former outrages bave been and are being desit with."
Copies of this resolution have been telegraphed to London and Washington.
A largely attended indignation meeting was held at Foochow last night.
Absolutely no provocation whatever was given for the attack on the missionaries.
AN AMERICAN MISSION DESTROYED, The work of pillage and murder is reported to be still going on in the province of Fublien, and news has now reached here from Foochow to the effect that the American Mission house at Ingkok, near Kucheng, has been burnt,
It is not yet known whether any lives were lost at Ingkok.
SERIOUS CRISIS AT FOOCHOW.
SHANGHAI, August 6th, 5 p.m. All the Europeans resident at Foochow now find themselves in a very critical position owing to the hostile feeling openly evinced by the natives, who bave suddenly become grossly offensive and overbearing in their attitude towards foreigners.
The native officials have reported to the various foreign Consuls stationed at Foochow that should any outbreak occur they feel certain that they will be quite unable to cope with the mob, for the reason that not only the district of Kucheng (where the recent massacre of British Missionaries took place) but the whole province of Fuhkien is in a state of rebellion against the government. They state their willingness to preserve order, but aver that they can do absolutely nothing to put down a general anti- foreign stalag of the masses.
The American mission at Fungfuk has been burnt and the occupants escaped massacre only through evacuating their homes shortly belor: the "Crusaders" delivered the attack.
The whole of the European and American residents of Foochow have appealed to their respective High Authorities in the Far East for protection and have asserted in their telegrams that gunboats should be at once sent right up to
Foochow, anchor off the Settlement, and clear for action.
The extremely critical position of many mis. Hobarles now resident at various inland cities causes great anxiety to the foreign residents of Foocho, and it is generally conceded that drastic measures must at once be adopted by the various foreign Governments concerned to put a stop to further dastardly outrages upon foreigners.
Sir Nicholas O'Conor has telegraphed to the Chairman of the Shanghal branch of the China Association, in reply to his communication respecting the resolution carried at the indigna. tion meeting last night, that he has directed "Mr. Mansfield, British Consul at Foochow, to proceed Immediately, under military escort, to Kucheng, there hold an enquiry into the massacres, and then promptly report to Peking.
The Emperor of China is very angry about the Kucheng massacres and has issued a decree ordaining immediate capital punishment for alli persons found guilty.
THRILLING DETAILS OF THE
OUTRAGES.
MEN WOMEN AND CHILDREN HACKED TO
PIECES AND BURNT.
THEIR ORDERS WERE TO " KILL OUTRIGHT ["
Shanghai, August 6th, 1 p.m.
Dr. Gregory, one of the survivors, reports that at thirty-five minutes past noon of the 1st August a native rushed into his study saying "some foreign ladies at Hassan, Kucheng district, have been killed and their houses have been burned. Fifteen minutes later a note from the Rev. Phillips confirmed the report issued from the Magistrate's Yamen, where hundreds of exoited people were attempting to effect an entrance. Magistrate Wong Immediately pro- ceeded to Huasan, taking sixty soldiers with him for the purpose of suppressing the riot. At 3 p.m. he left Kucheng city and at 8 p.m. he arrived at Huasan.
LIST OF THE WOUNDED.
It is now definitely known that nine British subjects have been murdered. Those reported alive at Huasan, all more or less injured, except the Rev. Phillips, are:-
M188 CODRINGTON, who was cut from the left angle of the mouth diagonally outward and downward. The woord Is sev n inches in extent and completely divides the lower lip, exposing the jaw-bone. She has a nasty cut on the crown of her head, three inches in length, which exposes the skull. This lady also has a bad cut across the nose ; a cut under her left eye, three inches long; a deep gash on the right side of the neck; two wounds in the right arm and a deep spea wound in the right thigh. She is in a very critical condition and it is hardly likely that she will recover.
MISS HARTFORD is suffering from some slight Injury to the chest. She was beaten while on the ground and trampled upon by the mob,
This lady effected ber escape to the hills and remained there until the rioting was over.
MILDRED STEWART, aged 12, is badly wounded in the right knee, the joint of which is exposed. She also has a wound 6 Inches long by a inches wide in the left leg. Her condition is very serions.
KATHLEEN STEWART, aged 11, is slightly bruised.
HERBERT STEWART, aged 6, has a deep wound in the right side of the neck, four inches long. He is also suffering from a compound fracture of the skull at the back of the head, one cut on the head cut clean through the skull, exposing the brain. He has also a nasty wound on the left side of the head, a wound in the chest and a stab in the back. He died 30 hours after the first onslaught.
EWAN STEWART, aged 3 years, was stabbed in the left thigh and badly bruised.
Poor Mrs. Stewart's baby, 13 months old, is wounded in the forehead. His skull is fractured and be bas several bad bruisesțabout his body, He will probably die soon.
THE DEATH ROLL.
The list of those who were killed outright is as follows:-
The Rav. and MRS. STEWART ; MISS NELLIE SAUNDERS ;
LENA an Irish nurse in the employ of Mr. Stewart. She was burnt to death in the Stewart's house;
HESSIE NEWCOMBE-frightfully speared and sitimately thrown over a high preclvice;
MISS MARSHALL-tbrost cut, her head being almost completely severed from her body;
MISS STEWART's body has no wounds about it, and It is possible and probable that her death is due to severe shock to the nerven ;
spear
MISS GORDON (Australlan)--deep wounds in face, neck, side and head;
MISS TOPSY SAUNDERS-death caused by spear wound, the weapon entering the brain through the right orbit.
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The massacres were the work of members of a secret society known as the "Vegetarian" party or sect, and the attacking party consisted of men armed with spears and swords. They appeared well organized and were under one leader.
The missionaries had no suspicion of an attack. The whole affair was sudden and most terrible and the butchery was over in half an hout.
The missionaries begged and beseeched the blood-thirsty ruffians to spare their lives, and went so far as to offer to surrender their property and their valuables if allowed to leave the dis- trict in peace. Some of the brutal gang were moved to compassion by the mother, who, with pale face and tears in her eyes, sought to protect ber children from the ferocity of the savage assassins. She appealed in vain however, for the leader of the mob replied to all appeals for clemency by saying to his orgel crew" you know your orderi { kill outright,”
The scenes were, according to the survivorą, Awful, heartrending, and indescribably diabolical. CHINESE TROOPS LOOT THE
VICTIMS HOUSES!
GREAT INDIGNATION AT FOOCHOW AND
SHANGHAI.
SHANGHAI, August 8th. The troops sent by the Viceroy of Fubklen province to quell the disturbances at Kucheng and protect the property of the missionaries have looted the victims' houses, ransack d their boxes and wardrobes and appropriated everything belonging to the murdered missionaries.
Great indignation is expressed at Foochow and Shanghai in respect to these latest outrages by the troops of the Viceroy, and it is urged that the British Government must take action, the Chinese troops and officials being wholly untrustworthy,
Two of the little children who were severely wounded at Kucheng are now dying!
REUTER'S TELEGRAM.
A FEEBLE POLICY.
On the 6th Instant Renter wired from London stating -
Lord Salisbury has demanded that the Govern- ment of China issues a decree ordering the execution of the culprits concerned in the recent Massacre and that the fullest protection shall be afforded to Missionaries in the future. He also demands an escort for the Foochow Consul who is proceeding to the scene of the outrage to make enquiries. China has assented to these demands.
THE KUCHENG ATROCITIES.
GREAT INDIGNATION MEETING IN THE THEATRE ROYAL,
IMPORTANT RESOLUTIONS PASSED AMIDST DEAFENING APPLAUSE.
SWIFT AND STERN MEASURES" ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY.
A public indignation meeting convened by Dr. Jas. Cantile and his partners, Drs. Hartigan and Stedman, was held in the Thestre Royal, City Hall, at noon on the 8th instant, It was the largest, most representative, and thoroughly enthusiastic public meeting ever held in the colony, and as such was keeping with the terribly melancholy occasion which it was intended to commemorate and the grave issues involved in the settlement of the questions connected with the heartless mas1acre of missionarios-men, women, and children-st
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