Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-08-08
Chinese 0utrages Not the Work Of
"Vegetarians" Only.
REPORTS OF ADDITIONAL OUTBREAKS
Troops to Escort British Consul to
Ku Cheng.
INQUIRY TO BEGIN AT ONCE

LONDON, August S.-A dispatch to the
Pail Mall Gazette from Shanghai says
that further and reliable news of an alarm
ing nature has been received there. 1t is
stated that fanatical outbreaks against the
Christians have occurred at Ching Chow,
a seaport of the province of Fo Kien, and
at Huhes Tapping and An-Hui. These out
breaks. 1t is added, are not merely the
work Of ''Vegetarians.'' but they are said
Chinese officials.
The extent of the damage done is not vet
known, but the foreigners are reported to
have escaped;
Owing to the unsettled state of the prov
ince. 200 Sikhs. reliable British-Indian
troops. from Hong Kong, will escort the
British consul from Foo Chow to Ku
Cheng, where the consul will conduct an
Inquiry into the recent outrages.
The Shanghai correspondent Of the Fall
Mall Gazette expresses he opinion that
further outrages are inevitable unless
Great Britain takes swift and deadly VEN
geance."
JACKSON, Miss, August S.-Bishop Gal
loway of this city yesterday received a
cablegram from Rev. Drs. Parker and Reid
at Shanghai China, which read as follows:
Horrible massacre. More danger. Move
Washington"
HONG KONG, August S.-The British and
American missions at Fat-Shan. near Can
ton. were attacked yesterday afternoon by
a large and infuriated mob. The hospitals
were demolished. Some of the missionaries
fled to Shameen, while others remained
Chinese gunboat has been dispatched
to queil the riot. 1t is reported that all
lhe missions ct Kwang Tung will soon be
destroyed, and the missionaries driven to
the treaty ports. The 'Vegerarans" are
12O00 strong. and well-armed and organ
lied. ard able to withstand the Chinese
troops.
]. Courtney Hixson. United States consul
at Foo Chow, in the course of a consular
inquiry on the spot, obtained the names
of fifty natives implicated in the -Cheng
massacre. including the leaders and some
abundant proof that the Chinese officials
knew that mischief was brewing for sew
eral days prior to the massacre Not a
Of the victims.
Reports are arriving daily from almost
every province of horrible official persecu-
ton of native Christians and of the moles-
tation and insults to which foreieners in
the interior are subjected
AT public Indignation meeting held here
resolutions were passed expressing anger
at the supposed connivance of the Chinese
government in the Ku Cheng massacres
and disgust at the apathy and Indifference
OF the British government in failing to rec
ognize the gravity of the situation. Those
present at the meeting further declared
that money compensation for such out
RACES is wholly inadequate, and that swift
and stern action is required.
LONDON, August SIN regard to tine dis
patch from Hong Kong, cabled exclusively
to the Associated Press, announcing that
the British and American missions at Fat
Shan, near Canton, We're attacked yeater-
day afternoon by a large and infuriated
mob which demolished the hospitals and
caused some of the missionaries 20 flee to
Shame En- it is stated that the Wesleyan
mission has one of the most important
medical missions in China at Fat-Shan
a ol o1d rfnff
charge of DIR. Wanyon, who has just ar
rived here after perilous overland jour-
ney, during which he was arrested in Ar
menia as a spy. The rest of the mission
stan Of the Wesleyan mission at Fat-Shan
are Chinese. They We're attacked a few
years ago, upon which occasion mission
ary was killed.
Mis siOnarics Returned Too Soon.
LONDON, August S.-A representative of
the Associated Press has haG an interview
with Mr.. w. w. Rockhill. third assistant
secretary of state of the United States, who
was one of the delegates to the recent in
ternational geographical congress. and who
returns to New York Saturday next.
Referring to the massacres in China, Mr.
Rockhill said he thought it was a great
mistake for the missionaries to have re-
turned 50 soon tc the outlying stations af-
ter the conclusion of the war. especially
as they had been warned of the danger of
so doing. Mr. Rockhill could not say ary-
thing about what the United States and
British governments might be expected TO
do under their remonstrances. but ne ex-
pressed himself being certain that the
diplomatic representatives of the different
countries Interested would make a common
cause of such cases, they did when the
Swedish missionaries were murdered at
Sang-Hu.
Continuing, Mr. Rockhill said he thought
the Vegetarians must be the north China
society known as the TsaiIi.- who are not SO
much vegetarians as abstainers and non
smokers. They are neither a political nor
an anti-foreign society. and, according to
Mr. Rockhill. a number of the servants Of
the United States ministry at Pekin are