Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-02-13
HORRORS IN CHINA.


Wholesale nutohery of Mon, Women and
Children by Rebels s-Tho Latter Captured
and Beheaded by Hundreds.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 5.-A Shanghai
correspondent gives details of ter
rible atrocity committed by Chinese
rebels on the border of Manchuria and
of equally terrible punishment in
fiicted by government troops upon the
captured rebels. These rebels were
led by several Buddhist priests,
and they were especially savage
against native Christians. At one
place they burned sixty children and
butchered nine Chinese nuns. AT an
other they cremated sixty men whom
they imprisoned in barn. Their ex-
peditions were solely for plumber and
" shout political purpose. Viceroy Ii
sent large army against them and
their strength was broken. Hundreds Of
prisoners were taken.
The punishment meted out to the
rebels by their conquerors was most
revolving and the executions were con-
Quoted on wholesale scale. Men
We're beheaded by hundreds, and entire
trunks of trees were utilized as blocks
along which prisoners were ranged in
lines and their eXecutioners simply
moved off their heads when the signal
was given. Generally in China the con-
demned are ranged in small knots
kneeling before the eXecutioner, but
here the wretched miscreants were too
numerous for the usual rules to he OBJ
served and they were seized by their
'gueus by soldiers from the other side
of the lately improvised blocks and
their heads Topped off. They were not
even tied'and the headless trunks fell
against the block or tumbled back.
ward or to one side when the fatal
sword severed the neck. The heads
were hung in long rows on poles as 9
warning to others.
The rebels, it appears, were mostly
bandits, who roam the country JUS
outside the wall of China. Last spring
they joined forces and entered upon ;
regular plan of campaign of plumber
They were all well armed, and being
mainly composed of prescribed Chimes,
criminals they fought desperately
whenever pitted against the Chimes,
troops, and for long time always de
f.ated their adversaries One of thu
Irost notorious of the priestly maraud
1~s was Han Chan Chung, who recent
l. lost his life at Mo Wo Kun, a place
about 20D miles northeast of keehol
during II fierce engagement with th
Chinese troops. The most horribl,
atrocities were perpetrated b.
I, ase wandering desperadoes Eye
illnesses state that almost the entir
,;l III Il
.inated and murdered. The burning O
children alive, the brutal treatmen
and murder of women, the carrying OF
OF everything from the homes of tn
wretched people, was the general lin
of conduct of these inhuuian fiends.
A case in point is the occurrence at
village called Kutulan, In the Jchc
prefecture, Manchuriu- A band of SO
marauders swooped down upon thi
place in the dead Of night, captured a
whom they did not kill outright, an
finally carried away with them a
the women Before going they pr
sixty men in large barn, securel
fastened all places of egress, and st
fire to the place. The shrieks of thos
being burned alive reached the ears {
few persons who had escaped to til
hills. The scene was frightfal in tn
extreme. This, however, is only on
of dozen such incidents. III
rebels raided and destroye
Christian and heathen village
alike, but to captives of I'll
former places they acted in
particularly ferocious manner. A
Talijow, which has been Christian 4,
two centuries, they massacred mir
Chinese sisters, nuns, and burned Il
orphanage, which contained sixty lit
inmates. The piercing of the'bodies
the captives with heated bayonets ar
spears, the gouging out of eyes, tt
disemboweling or burying alive of vi
TINS were among the atrocities pra
ticcd by the rebels.