The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-09-01

and foreigners viii be full of apprehension and
distress. Discharged soldiers from the Chinese
army snd expelled members from Chinese secret
societies are 70 be found IN every province along
the Ysngtsze river. Anonymous plaesrds are
posted for the purpose Of sgitating and rnislead-
favorable opportunity TO create disturbances.
1t Is certain that no peaceful and
lsw-abidfng people are guilty Of these
acts. The memorislists find that the
religion of the great Wesley persuades people 70
follow the path of virtue. 1t has been pFomul-
gated in all thew estern countries for many ears
Since China commenced commercial intercourse
with foreign countries the treaties stipulate
that, In ali China, the believers and promul-
gators OF the Roman Catholic and Protestant re-
ligion should one and all find protection Of life
and property, and that they are permitted TO
congregate to offer prayer and 70 sing hymns.
The hospitals for the sick and the asylums for
the infants all doing good work OF late
years, In all the places Ia the different pro-
vinces visited by caiamities, there were many
missionaries who contributed large sums OK
money and helped IN other ways to alleviate the
suferings OF the people. Their love OF dong
good and their generosity In giving are certainly
commendable. Amongst the native converts
good and bad are TO b. found: still they are sud-
jects of Cbins and are amenable to the juris-
dictiou OF local authorities. Lovers OF rnischleI
about and raise suspicion among the masses
causing trouble under these pretexts, WIN the
hope of plunder Unless strict precautions are
taken 1t 10 TO be feared that the Chinese people
ana foreign merchants will not Dc able 70 I'VE
In peace. The memorialists wish every governor
TO be warned not TO listen lightly 10 rumors that
may make trouble. In case anonymous placards
are written aud rumors fabricated and eircu-
lated 70 misiead the people, stringent
and severe measures should BE- adopted
TO arrest and severely punish the oHendsrs.
The local authorities should afford at all times
protection 10 the merchants, missionaries ana
people of all nationalities and also to their
property, and should these precautionary meas
ures be Intellectual or protection useless, let the
higher authority interfere and have the inferior
ones severely punished.
This memorial seems to have had the
effect Of causing the government to take
somewhat more active steps to prevent
repetition of the riots. The recent riots at
Wuhu have been investigated and the
leaders punished, while the governors-gen
eral and governors have been directed to
discover, convict and most severely punish
the guilty leaders in connection with the
riots at the other places, so as to be a
warning for the future. Arrangements
have been made for a supply OF troops and
III SHlUot anu tHOoC III duliiOTitY nave
been instructed not to permit their sub
ordinates, apprehensive of responsibility,
to cause any further delay. In other
words the government will back up its
officials in the discharge of their duty
in protecting the lives and property of
foreigners
During the first week in August a ty-
phoon passing in the neighborhood of the
colony OF Hongkong caused an enormous
loss of property. and it is said the loss of
quite number of lives, although the
time these advices were being ma i it
was not known just what number OF people
had been killed and drowned. For the
most part the loss of life was on the water.
This is always the case, as in the harbor of
Hongkong there are continually people
around in boats and frequently there are
very many drowned as a result of ty-
phoon. But this time fortunately there
were no Europeans. One of the reasons
of there not being more damage to life was
that signs of the typhoon manifested
themselves some time before il
broke in its full force. At Gas
O'Clock on Sunday night, August Oh,
gale began to make itself felt, and blew
with considerable force for about six hours,
At West Point, six row boats containing
each two people, were driven against tss
rocks and broken up, and only one man
escaped. 1t is believed that others we're
out too, but owing to the darkness this u
not known as fact. All connection with
the outlying district having been again de-
stroyed no account as to the extent Of the
damage is yet ascertained, but it IL sur.
missed that it will prove to be more serious
than in the town. A number of steamers
had everything stripped off their decks,
while the spars and rigging of nearly every
sailing vessel in the harbor were swept
away, anchors were torn up and vessels
washed up on shore, but in nearly every
case loss of life was avoided.
A great deal of attention is being IT.
tracted Just now to the financial string
ency which prevails in a good many parts
of China and Japan, and the failure Of a
large number of European houses doing
business there is reported by the local
papers. 1t is said that should the banks
press matters against one large European
firm, known to be heavily involved,
that at least twenty or thirty smaller and
dependent firms, European and Chinese,
will be affected. The cause does not seem
"
merely of locked up CAPITAL and the great
loss which has been sustained through the
fall in the values of silk, while on the
other hand there is a disposition in the
great marts of the world to decline adyanc-
ing money upon the cargoes until they
reach the market, and in view of this fact
local banks will not advance money upon
bills of lading and shipments made as
freely as they did last season. OF course
the stringency may be only temporary,
and it is sincerely hoped in Yokohama
and Hongkong especially, that this is so,
as otherwise a considerable monetary dis
turbance will result.
Advices from Hankow state that there
is great talk there of serious revolution.
The story is that large band of thousands
of robbers under the leadership of son of
Ii Chang Shou, an old rebel chief, had
crossed into Hupeh from Honan and that
they had burned many houses and cap
tured the city of Matching, putting the
mandarin in charge to death. Further
accounts of the outrage are not yet TO
hand, but from all that can be learned the
most disgusting outrages and violent
cruelties have been perpetrated. Not only
have the men been killed along with the
women and children. but the dead bodies
have been exhibited outside the city
until the whole place was one mass of
putrefaction. Those whose misfortune il
was TO be kept as prisoners instead of be-
ing put TO death were compelled to live on
barley enough 10 sustain existence and
watch beside the PURIFYING bodies of their
friends who had been murdered. The
robbers afterwards took to the mountains.
hut not heinre they had niilaned eyerv.