Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-03-12
,Tcu CRUELTY IN FORMOSA.
80 Trade Junks and working
sinkils Coolies to Death.

SllA'A COOLIES ~
n. o,,arIand china Mail, February Sd,
NV srNaws of a most unpleasant char
says, caches us from Formosa, through
ac''i # is emphatically asserted by a
Ap n,GIo correspondent that the French
Ie-''' been guilty Of acts OF a
nav Questionable character in carry
NOV ,t tbe so-called blockade. This
ny raised on December 18th with
wa ,otice being served on either neu-
oO, or Chinese. 1t was renewed on
LI'I. ~. 5tb and since that date 1t is
J&nu"'Sa tbat native craft have been wan
ailIIlJJo ostroved: even the small sampanS
i9 9?b are engaged in carrying Ilrew ,' III
WIZ DnoSj fish and provisions from T one va
chalC ~ 'ranothernot being spared. 1 7lpi'
Ia7e n II to our informant the fI re III
accoIuL'II aya begun to wage war OF eA7
seen! - a',' AGAINST the Chinese Junk ana
teTInlIl .oonJIa along the whole coast lI
boat P n,Is Of these boats, mostly
The ere" fshermen or traders, are
it5er sunk in their boats or tne! "iI iC ON
eiST' carried of to Ke!umg TO Wo,H o os
C5o o batteries where their tate Is he'tl9 , I'
i 5l1 O' They are forced to WORK az ' ,io
pau g The hayonet. They receive no ilo
PoLI' ,, 20 fiat which they get rom 'l.t
l ..' eHSoF coolies who were impressed AZ
Ai"nle0o ~, oT when they are no longer aDle
Saigon, ana i, NlIIii exhaustion, they are
TO work. tota5 or shot down by the
either paS r ~ who stand over them day
anlMght. ,r,yof 77abr,arv 10Th has
a. allowing in corroboratlon OF Ihe
lhe I ',t'yT. !. The accusations of cruelty
aJg, ,r, 5,t destruction brought against
. .il" french feet OF Formosa and the
T ti. troops at Kelung are being con-
fr,naJ daily. There is now not the
SLIGHTEST doubt that the feet is eXter-
,nTgting the innocent trading junks and
s1mpanS which ply on the coast OF the
Island. and that their crews are KILLED
nv the shots fred at them out
ot the machine guns, or are
taken TO Kelung, where, as has already
been stated, they are inhumanely treated.
They are neither supplied with iood nor
drink. and when they are unfit Tor lurtner
work they are shot or bayoneted by the
cm9r,I set over them. There are widely
snread runors that there is great dissat-
isfaction among the troops OF the For
cien Legion and Algerian regiments at
Keung. The sickness among these and
tbe men on board the feet is said to be
enormous. and to crown all a mun;ty has
broken out on board Admiral Courbet's
ghip the Bayard and twelve men have
been shot The disatIection among the
men on the ships OF the fleet has become
50 strong that Admiral Courbet with
seven ships belonging to the feet has
moved away from the island OF Formosa
to Matsou island, Just to give his men
some relief from the inaction from which
thew 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
gunboats visiting the place refuse to land
the mails sent by them because the
French Admiral says they must not. -
San Francisco Chronicle.