Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-11-11
FOREIGN NEWS.
JAPAN AND CHINA.
Toxic aud Yokohama Visited by Earth.
quakes-The True Interview Between
Minister Young and LII Hung
Chang-Outrages of Chinese
Mobs.

SAN Francisco, Nov. 10.
Steamer City of Rio de Janeiro, which
arrived here last night, brings Hong Kong
sdvices to Oct. l4th and Yokohama advices
to Oct. 22d, as follows:
The cities of Toxic and Yokohama were
visited by a severe earthquake on Oct. 18th.
The shock was the heaviest felt since Feb.
22d, 1880, but the damage was comparatively
slight. The first shock lasted two minutes
and was quickly followed by several minor
shocks.
The Overland China Mail of Hong Kong
publishes the following. In the interview
between John Russell Young, American min
lister, and Viceroy Ii Hung Chang, on the
subject of mediation between France and
China, the closing portion of the Interview
not previously reported is as follows:
Young-"If France proposes American
mediation, will China accept it?"
Ii Hung Chang-''She might, but certainly
will not again propose it."
Young-"May inform my government to
this effectS"
Ii Hung Chang-"You may"
Chinese mobs have been committing fearful
Outrages.
There were fearful outrages on persons
and places of Christian worship at Canton
and interior points. In the province of
Ah"ouS uhk aiOhSs iOuI hOmhH NdtuOllC duu
five Protestant churches have been destroyed
l2O houses of resident Christians looted and
their occupants driven away. At Nam Hai
the Catholics were driven away and three
churches and houses pillaged, as were also
the houses of the converts Priests and
converts were beaten and driven out. At
Shanghai the Church of England chapel was
destroyed
They took daughter from the preachers S
wife and treated her shamefully. At Chau
Sung. the Wesleyan chapel was DESTROYED
Christians flee from the province to Hong
Kong. The Chinese gave them the alternative
of sacrificing to idols or burning their homes
They preferred the latter, but while leaving
many of them were caught and outraged
The authorities of twelve country villages
have issued notices that all Christians must
| leave.
Fifteen churches in these villages have
been destroyed and several stores looted I;
many persons are homeless Although the
attention of the Chinese government has been
called to these barbarous acts, no action has
been taken to prevent them or to punish
them. AT Kite Yung, the mob destroyed all
the Roman Catholic and English churches
AT Swartow the Catholic priests were ordered
TO leave and after they had gone some Chinese
soldiers broke into the house and rayished
the female converts. News has reached
Shanghai from Pekin that Mt Bagnall, cor
porteur of the American Bible society, has
been murdered in the province of Shang
Tung.
/ Yokohama advices state that the great
success of the railways already built in Japan
has led to the formation of several new com
panies. An extensive network of lines will
be constructed, and the people are anxious to
keep the control of the lines in the own
hands.
Full reports of the riots at Hong Hong
which begun Sept Sd and lasted three days
show that the7 were less serious than at first
reported. The trouble began through the
refusal of the Chinese workmen to help load
French merchant vessel. They were taken
to the police court and fined S5 each. They
attempted to resist by force, and sixty of
them were captured by the police. One of
rioters was shot dead, whereupon the others
fled to the Chinese territory. This ended the
riots.