People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1896 — GERMANS ILL-TREATED. [ARTICLE]

GERMANS ILL-TREATED.

On* Murdered and Other* Beaten by ChlneHH Soldier*. London, June 3. —A special dispatch from Shanghai says that the German officers who were loaned to drill the Chinese army have been subjected for some time to indignities and outrage, the motive of which was to force them to resign. Recently two of the Germans were beaten by soldiers and now an officer named Krauss has been murdered by the bodyguard of Lin-Kun-Yah, viceroy of Nankin. In consequence of these events the entire German squadron in Chinese waters has been ordered to Nankin and it is believed that Germany will withdraw the fifty officers now in the Chinese army and insist upon the payment of the whole term of their contract.