Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-08-26
Execution of Four Chinese Muir
derers.
PUNISHED FOR TEE RECENT hASSACRES
How the Foreigners View the
Missionaries.
THEIR SIDE OF THE STORY

LONDON, August 26.-The correspondent
of the Pail Mall Gazette at Shanghai tele-
graphs that according to advices received
there from Cherg Tu four of the ring
leaders Of the recent massacre of mission
aries have been executed.
The Chinese Side of the Story.
CHICAGO, August 28-Sam Moy, a
prominent Chinese merchant of Chicago.
says that a Chinese paper he just received
gives the Chinese version of the attacks
upon the English ard American mission
aries.
According to this Chinese paper the at
tack developed serious condition of af-
fairs. 1t was found that the Easements
OF missionary houses were closely guarded
by the diSreDutable Chinese hargerS-on in
the missions. No decent Cinnamon will
have anything to do with the mission. The
missionaries cannot talk the language.
The Chinese in the interior who can talk
pigeon" or any foreign language are al
most always young men who have run
away to avoid punishment for petty crimes
or to shirk the support of their families.
going to some treaty port instead of to the
mountains, as the fusitives from justice
for more serious crimes do. In time the
petty crime is forgotten or compounded, or
the fellow comes back, but IS regarded as
q social cutcast.
The interruptions Hanger-On.
The advent of the missionary opens a
new field for the INSCRIPTIONS linguist.
The missionary has to have an Interpreter.
The outcast Is ready to act, and also to be-
come covert-anything for an easy living.
He becomes a member of the missionary
staff and the household. The missionary
wants converts, the hanser-on wants some
luxuries.
There are only two ways to get converts
in China One is to hire them; then you
have converts just as long as they are
paid. The other is by kidnapping children
and keeping and teaching them.
Good missionaries. the paper says, do not
allow any kidnapping; but most Of the
don't know how bad their native staff is.
1t Is the native staff, under the lead of a
tough interpreter, which does the kidnap-
Ing. and the missile naries are fooled.
Kidnapping.
One of the Interpreters sees child, say,
4 girl, ten or twelve years old, and finds
out that her parents are poor or careless
people. not likely to make much fuss at
her disappearance. He ccaxes the child to
visit the mission. end often force has to be
used.
lous interpreter that the child wishes to be-
come a Christian, that she wants to live
in the mission and wants to be instructed,
or some other invention which seems to be
the Importance of guarding the new can
didate from recapture by the heather rela-
tives, who, the missionary Is assured
would do SO to prevent the perversion of
the child's faith.
The Chinese Aroused.
AS the missionary cannot talk to the
child he trusts his interpreter. who. utterly
INSCRIPTIONS, practically has possession of
the girl. She is his slave for the time be-
ing. and he uses the mission to keep her
safely and out of sight until he can sell
her and get the money for her.
The burning of the missions freeo. some of
the girls, who told the stories of their kid
nap.ng, confinement and The indignities to
which they were subjected.
The stories spread and aroused the fe-
rocity of the Chinese. This started the
great riot. and the MOB attacked the MS
sionaries and interpreters Unfortunately.
The governor of Fo KEN sent 900 SOL
diers up to river Min to iuar the riot and
restore order. hut the bandits Joined With
the rabble and whipped the soldiers. The
soldiers lost half their number and had to
retreat AT the tine the paper was printed
1t was said the whole section was in cen
troll of the mob.