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$10PR35
THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
-INCHOW MASSACRE.
AMERICAN DEMANDS
tablenews publishes the following
gran :-
Shanghai. November 9.—The United States will demand of China for the murdering of the missionaries at Linchow a large indemnity,
ACCIDENT TO A GERMAN OFFICER and the peremptory discharge from their off
AT THE PEKING MANOEUVRES
EXTRAORDINARY COSSACK REMEDY
Major von Claer, the much respected attache of the German Legation. had been riding behind and galloped up at full speed or the rough field to take the ple all tted to hom in the procession. Unfortunately his charger, a fine powerful-looking animal, stumbled and rolled over on the ground head downwards, the rider going over his shoulders and taking the full weight of the horse on his h dy. Three Russian orderlies at ouc
Came and
dismounting from their shaggy little ponies picked up the unfortunate officer. while Mr. Ponts of the American party dismounted and secund the trembling horse. Major von Claer had fallen face downward and Lay motionless. The Russian horsemen, tough, handy fellows, who had ovide itly soon mishaps of this sort before, proceded without losing a moment to subject the fallon officer to extraure dinary treatment. They took him by the shoulders and under the arms, and tting him up a foot or more aboy 1 ir ieads allowed him to come heavily to ground again on his feet. This was rep ate; for a 'nute or so, and it seemed as if whatever life the major might
have left in him would be shaken outl
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Ompteda aud to the Chau Viceroy expressed great cotiera, n'hearme el the accident, aud a ot.de sel a doctor, that is to SOLA . Chines
mentary surgeon skilled in foreign singh my, s vited to the injured officer, Eu addition to the stan; ning force of the fall. Major von & laer sustain- ed a cut across the forelica 1, e used apparuthy, by the helmet which affords no profection in case of a fall but seems rather to add to the danger. An hour or two afterwards, thanks to his physical strength and the prompt attention which he was given, the gallant major seemed practically recovered.
THE QUEUE.
The Sinead publishes a telegram tron Peking which should howovog b accepted with
reserve until confirmed.
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cial position and the humbling of the Viceroy of Canton and the Profet of the district in which finehow is situate L.
The United States government
Will it urcessary send its fleet to make a demonstration at scene prinei, al port of China, but this is thought unlikely, as China sems willing ta make any reparation possible. The United Stats Minister at Peking, Mr. Rockhill, has told the Chinese government in remarkably plain wor's that Minerira is determined to take no further insults or injuries from China, and that the horrible crimes in Linchow, coming on top of the insulting boycott, and the hundred other evidences of ill will toward America on the part of Chinese are the limit of endurance.
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It is reported that the document handed to the foreign office at Peking was stronger than any messages to China from America since the Boxer onfrages. The Americans here are in- tensely worked up over the Linchow murders, and have sent some urgent cablegrams home on the subject.
THE ODIUM THEOLOGICUM
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[November 18, 1905.
they dragged them and killed them, with all manner of mutilations and indignities the bodies of the women being stripped and exposed to the derision of the passers-by.
Machle, the missionary, whose wife and daughter were killed, escaped, as did Miss Patterson, by running to the house of the head official of the town, who protected them. The mandarin went to the scene of the burning mission and dispersed the mob.
The Chinese were exceeding wrought up over the insult to their sacred image, and were urged on to violence by a number of roughs from Canton, who had been foremost thore in、 agitating the boycott against Americans. From the evidence of those with whom I have talked, it would seem that the missionaries acted very unwisely and ill-manneredly in seizing the idol. The Chinese said that in their own country. they surely had a right to their own religions customs and ceremonies. They were content to lot the foreigners worship as they pleased but reserved the same right for themselves.
Several educated Chinese in Canton to whom I have spoken of the matter talked in the same strain. They said that most of the trouble in China was caused by missionaries offending the religious beliefs of the people, and assuming airs of superiority over the Chinese.
ENGLISH CAPITAL FOR JAPANESE BANK.
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An independent account sent to
The Japan Credit Mobilier, Limited (Nippon American paper, after giving facts as already | Kogyo Ginko), which has been considering the
to establishi noted, goes ou to -While struggling | best. means
connections with in the water a Chinaman with a huge trident capitalists in Europe and America, with a thrust it into the body of Miss Chestnut and view to facilitating the introduction of foreign into the hond 4 + [ the little girl. Mrs capital, has succeeded in arriving at Machle, the mother, stood near by exhorting arrangement with certain influential capitalists in London with the assistauce of Mr. the mob to spare her child and telling them in their own language of the heinousness Takahashi, Vice-President of the Bank of their crime. She kidt and prayed for deliver- | Japan,
in the English metropolis. its has decided to increase aher bf a heavy stone thrown from the crowd | Tue
and it has been das! d in her brains. Mrs. Machie's body was capital by Y7,500,000,
that the new shares shall be dis stud of all its clothing and contemptuously | arranged fessed in the river in which the others had taken up by the Tondon capitalists. By this
-1013 #rom
Another sation of the mob arrangement fore capitalists will have a had captured Mr. and Mrs. Peale by this time. direct interest in t. bank, and the issue of They were dragged into the centre of the bonds by railway companies and other concerns thong and threxposed for 15 minutes, mude.
in Japon will be largely facilitated, as Japanese Thuring this time the ruffians leapel about may expect to obtain foreign loaus through the them, spitting on them, heaping filth on them, bank with much less trouble than hitherto. and telling them of their fate in store. They
The authorised capital of the Credit Mobilier, Limited, is Y10,000,000, of which Y5,000,000 is famated them as to the weakness of their God who could not deliver them
now paid up. The decision to increase the capital will be placed before a general meeting in a few days.
Describing the feeling at Canton, another are uut says :-- Aibed to the boycott is now the religious element of hatred. The people of Canton are filling over and over again of the action of the missionaries in Linchow who seized the sacred image, and there is no doubt that this action has added greatly to the feeling against Americans and. indeed. against all foreigners.
THE LESSON IS PLAIN
AMERICAN
VERSION OF THE MASSACRE.
Mr. T. P Harley of Canton sends the following account of the Linchow affair: --
Canten. November 5.—Supplementing my cable-grams to the Cablencies I send you here with as fully as I can gather them, the details
• the murders of the American missionaries in Linchow, and the causes of the uprising against them. Deeply as one must deplore the terrible deaths and mutilations of the unfortunate man and the women and child, and swift and sum. mary as the vengeance of the United States should be, yet to oue who has lived in China many years, the Issou is plain.
The telegram is dued the 6th instaut and stats that the fixe High Commissioners going al road intend to dr in European clothes and as the units rm af special Ambassadors, as fleet d by the Diplo, matic Services of foreign e antries, with pleaty of gold lace and an elaborately decorated sword hanging on the thigh. Permission, it is further announced, is also granted the members of the High Commissioners' respective suites to fodia their chief's example with the further privilege of cutting off the best portion f the hair, if so desired, leaving a watter of two inches in kngth for braiding in a bit of silk string, as an apology for the queue, which can then be inserted inside the hatsion by Chinese was toru from the hands of its and so kept from public view.
Were this to be sanctioned in reality it would be but a step towards the goal of the complet. abolition of the queue in this country, which is, being so earnestly louged for by, ow China, for it has become a creed, as it were, that unless, the people of China discard entirely ther present style of dress and manner of carrying the hair, this country can never really progress on the lines of a Western civilised nation, for the Chinese dress means luxury and dolce far niente, whilst that of the West betokens energy, bustle, activity and go-aheadness, all of which China in her present state does not possess.-- N-D Daily News.
A sacred image carried in a religious proces
bearer and taken away by a Presbyterian deae mess, au American woman, and the child afterward murdered. This was done apparently in an excess of religious zeal, although it was claimed by one of the missionaries that it was done in auger at the noise made by the proces-
sionists.
The seizure and desecration of the image had the same effect on the Chinese as the desecration of an image of the Virgin might have on devout Catholics. The Chinese were maddened and returned with daggers, knives, bamboo sticks and other weapons, a thousand strong.
They fired the buildings of the mission and chased the missionaries into a cave, whence
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LU-HAN RAILWAY OPENED.
SUCCESSFUL FUNCTION. The opening ceremony of the Lu-han Rail- way took place ou Monday, 15th November at the Yellow River Bridge.
It was a great success.
Trains from Peking and Hankow bronght 85 visitors, Chinese and European.
The passage of the train of 25 cars across the immense bridge (which was elaborately decorated for the occasion) evoked keen enthusiasm.
A great banquet was given afterwards on the south bank of the Yellow River.
Sheng Kung-pa presided. Toasts for the success of the enterprise, and congratulations on its promising inauguration, characterised the speeches.
THE CHINA SQUADRON.
Some time next month should see practically the whole of the ships in the China Squadron at Hongkong under Admiral Sir Gerard Nool who soon relinquishes the command here. The greater part of the fleet is at present on its way from Japan and when it reaches here the squadron will consist of the following ships Alacrity, dis- patch boat; Andromeda, cruiser ; Arun, and Dee torpedo boat destroyers; Diadem, first class cruiser; Erne. Ettrick, and Eze torpedo boat destroyers; Hogue, cruiser; Itchen, torpedo boat destroyer; Sutlej, first class cruiser (all coming). Fame, Handy, and Hart, torpedo boat destroy- ers; fecla, special torpedo vessel; Janus, Otter Virago and Whiting, torpedo boat destroyer (all in harbour at present).
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