Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1895 — OUTRAGES IN CHINA. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

OUTRAGES IN CHINA.

MISSIONARIES KILLED AND THE STATIONS BURNED. The Inmates, Most of Whom Were Ladies, Were Killed After Having Been Subjected to Fearful Atroci-ties-Situation is Critical. Officials Said to Be Implicated. A Shanghai dispatch to the London Times says that the mission and sanitarium at Wha Sang, near Ku-Cheng, province of Fukein, has been attacked, and ten British subjects killled. The Rev. Mr. Stewart, wife and child were burned in their house. The Misses Yellow and Marshall, two sisters named Saunders, two sisters named Gordon, and Stettie Newcombe were murdered with spears and swords, bliss Codrington was seriously wounded about the head, and the Stewart’s eldest child had a kneecap badly injured, while the youngest had an eye gouged out. The Rev. Mr. Phillips, with two Americans, Dr. Gregory and Miss Hartford, were wounded, but arrived safely at Fu-Chau-Fu. The prefect of Cheng-Tu, who was a member of the commission of inquiry which examined into the former outrages upon missionaries in that place, is himself seriously implicated in the Cheng-Tu outrages. Every day brings new accounts of violence done to American missionaries in China, and there is no longer a doubt that all foreigners in certain districts of the Chinese Empire are in hourly danger

of losing their lives. Already enough violence has been done to Americans to warrant the speedy dispatch of gun-boats to Chinese waters. The massacre nt Ku Cheng, with the subsequent immunity of the perpetrators from punishment, has had the natural effect of stirring up anti-fbreign fanatics in other localities to similar exploits. A mob has looted the American mission at Inghok, fifty miles from Foo Chow. The mission buildings at Fat Shan, near Canton, have been demolished. From other points all over the disaffected province of Fukein come reports of hostile demonstrations and increasing danger for all who are guilty of the crime of being “foreign devils.” Miss Mabel C. Hartford, one of the survivors of the Ku Cheng outrage and the only American who witnessed it, has telegraphed a vivid description of the affair, which makes it clear that the Chinese authorities aided and abetted the murderers. Archdeacon Wolfe cables from Foo Chow that Chinese soldiers sent to protect the mission at Ku Cheng plundered it. He says no reliance can be placed on the Chinese authorities. The Shanghai correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette expresses the opinion that further outrages are inevitable unless Great Britain “takes swift and deadly vengeance.” Certain it is that the salutary influence of English and American warships cannot too quickly be applied to the authorities of the localities who refuse to protect the lives of foreign residents. Even the remote presence of a man-of-war has been found effective in cooling the ardor of the

murderous fanatics who have taken to braining women and children. The time has come for decisive action to convince the Chinese Government that the most healthful thing it can do is to put down these mobs and punish the murderers. United States Minister Denby to China has taken prompt and energetic steps for the protection of American missionaries. Mail advices from him show that he made sweeping and 1 peremptory demand on China for the fullest protedtion of all Amercans and for capital punishment of the perpetrators. What answer was received is not known. Advices to the department indicate that no Americans were killed or

injured in the recent outrages. Admiral Carpenter, commander of the naval forces in Chinese waters, was instructed to assist in protecting Americans. It is believed among Chinese officials in Washington that secret societies in Southern China are at the bottom of the present troubles.

The Pekin Government is said to be anxious to keep these societies in check, but has difficulty in dealing with them owing to their remoteness from;the centers of Government. Henry A. Campbell, a colored political leader of Alabama, who has been serving under Secretary Herbert as a Navy Department messenger, fell dead while on duty in Washington.

WHERE THE MISSIONS ARE LOCATED.

CHARLES DENBY.