Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-03-12
;,prycH CRUELTY IN FORMOSA.
,:,c Trade Junks and Working
sinklns Coolies to Death.

GLAA- Coolies W 6SSSN-'
rr, overland china Mail, February Sd,
- .,Iews of most unpleasant char
say coaches us from Formosa, through
|''' # is emphatically asserted by a
AI raLIa correspondent that the French
I'n o been guilty of acts OF a
nav Questionable character in carry
~ ONT the so-called blockade. This
Ne raised on December 18th with
We ,o+ice being served on either neu-
III ,,1s ar Chinese. 1t was renewed on
r.,o,.v 5th and since that date 1t IS
J%H !Lu," that native craft have been wan
all iI' 'dGos+roved: even the small sampans
Ioll ~, oro engaged in carrying hreWoo9,
W me-, 81 fish and provisions from one VII
cllallo'' ooofbpr not being spared. indeed,
ln ''5 to our informant, the F re ~,
,'oo 70 have begun to wage a war 81 ca
s sen, against the Chinese JUNK ana
5 5ad4 noople along the Whole coa .1C.
D, D9m poYL Of these boats, mostly
. lLL9 fishermen or traders are
l !Ior e,,nl in their boats or they are Ior-
ely I , o,.r;, off TO Kelung to work on
cioiI Tories where their fate Is neari! as
UNI yLl1 O''' Tbav are forced to work at 'lle
paI of t6e bayonet. They receive no
{ood except that which they seJ lolt Wv, ~
inar1nsp coolies who were lmPIesseu1 ~
SCION and when they are no longer "pLe
e"iS 5,-ork through exhaustion, lney are
" ,,' WIN b9voneted or shot down by the
II. i
y a.oa3 Guard, who stand over them DAY
anu NV, M7,'L; Nina Nail of February 10th has
ia I-f allowing in corroboration OF the
. ilr story: The accusations Of cruelty
a "Di vanton destruction brought against
the French fleet of Formosa and the
Trsncb troops at Kelung are being con-
frmed daily. There is now not the
slightest doubt that the fleet is eNter-
mnating the innocent trading junks and
sqmnans which ply on the coast OF the .
island. and that their crews are killed |
iv the shots fred at them out T.
Of the machine guns, or are .
taken to kelung, where, as has already /
been stated, they are inhumaneiy treated. /
They are neither supplied with food nor /
drink. and when they are unfit Tor further |
work they are shot or bayOneted by the |
guard set over them. There are widely /
spread rumGrs that there is great dissat- /
istaction among the troops Of the For
eign Legion and Algerian regiments at /.
Kelung. The sickness among these and /.
the men on board the fleet is said to be /.
enormous, and to crown all a mun;ty has |.
broken out on board Admiral Courbet's /.
ship, the Bayard, and twelve men have |
been shot. The disaHection among the /
men on the ships OF the fleet has become /
so strong that Admiral Courbet with |
seven ships belonging to the fleet has
moved away from the island OF Formosa
to Natsou island, just to give his men
some relief from the inaction from which
they seem to suffer.
The foreigners in Formosa are at
present very wroth both with the French /
and their own officials, because they can
not obtain any letters which may come
for them either in British men-of-war or .
otherwise. The commanders OF British .
gmboats visiting the place refuse to land .
the mails sent by them because the |
French Admiral says they must not. p
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