The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-10
One Viceroy Refused to Help
Foreigners Whose Lives
Were Endangered.
STORIES OF EATING CHILDREN
Wild Charges Made Against Chris
tians by the Mobs of Infu-
rated Chinese.

| lister DENLY has been instructed by Acting
| Secretary Adee to secure protection for
American citizens at Pan Yang, China,
| place about forty miles from Foo Chow,
where the American mission is reported to
| have been looted by the Chinese.
| The statement of Miss Mabel G. Hart
ford, one of the American missionaries at
| Hwasang, regarding the outrages at that
station on the 1st inst, is regarded by the
officials at the State Department. as fully
vindicating their confidence in Minister
Denby's promptness and efficiency, despite
the criticisms that have been made against
| him.
| Saturday, the Sd inst, the second day
after the assault was committed, and ac-
cording to her statement, the relief party
met them the next day en- route to the
scene of trouble. 1t is pointed out that
Notwithstanding meager means of COM
munieation existing in the province and
the equally poor facilities for transporta-
ton the relief party had made most ex-
cellent progress, more rapid even than
might naturally have been expected. That
| it did so, these officials say, is proof ad-
ditional to that furnished by the develop
ments in the matter of the outrages at
Cheng Tu some weeks ago, that the Min
lister is especially vigilant and active in
looking after the interests of his country
men in China and protecting them to the
utmost extent of the means within his
power.
Appeals for the protection of American
missionaries in China have been coming in
| to the State Department this morning by
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| ligious organizations who have missionary
| stations in that country. Some of them
alleged that Minister DENLY is not doing
his duty, and indicate a state of feeling
that might naturally be caused by the
press dispatches concerning the outrages,
but it is hardly consistent with the efforts
which the department, Mr.. DENLY and Ad-
miral Carpenter are making to secure ade-
quate protection for all Americans in
China. The few dispatches received at the
department from United States Consuls in
China have been acted upon promptly. Mr..
| DENLY has been cabled all the information
contained in these, together with instrue-
tions to use his best efforts to give protec-
ton to American citizens, and to prevent
a repetition of attacks on American mis-
sionaries.
]. Courtney Hixon, the United States
| Consul at Foo Chow, has informed the
State Department that another mission
| chapel at Pang Yang has been looted, and
| directions have been cabled to Mr.. DENLY
to take cognizance of the matter. This is
believed to be the place given in the press
dispatches as Inghok or Pinghok.
| 1t would be of value to the State Depart
ment if all the American missionary So
cieties having missions in China would
| speedily furnish the location and descrip-
tion of the missions they represent, and
| list of the Americans attached to them.
| Acting Secretary Adee received from
United States Consul General Jernigan at
Shanghai dispatch dated July II, inclos-
ing four letters received by him from mis-
sionaries, giving in great detail accounts of
the events in China leading up to the riots
against the missionaries at Cheng Tu, in
the province OF Szechuen, One of these,
from Spencer Lanir, very comprehensive
in scope and dated Chun King China, says
that the West China mission of the Metho-
dist Episcopal church is the only American
| mission represented in Cheng Tu. The
Americans there were the Rev. Olin Cady
and wife, I'll. L. Cartwright, Md, and wife
and two children and Rev. j. f. Peat and
| wife and two children. This mission owned
but one piece of property in Cheng Tu,
| which is a building fitted up for the resi-
dence of two families, a Chinese building
used as chapel, a dispensary and minor
structures. Mr.. Lanir says that substan-
| tally all these are gone. even the paving
stones being carried out of the courts The
total loss, exclusive of personal loss, is
about 5000 taels.
The American Baptist Missionary Union
had stations in Sui-Fu, Kaiting and
Yachan. The missions and personal prop
erty at Kaiting and Yachan are probably
all lost, though particulars had not been
received by Lanir when his letter was
written. At Sui-Fu the Americans owned
great deal of property, but not much
damage was done to it.
Mr.. Lanir describes the various attacks
made on the missions at Cheng Tu, the
particulars of which have been printed in
American newspapers. In the attack on
the premises of the Canadian Methodist
mission the two persons in charge of the
hospital and chapel, which were afterward
looted and burned, kept the mob at bay,
but the officials would give no assistance,
although several of them were quite near.
Late that evening, May %, the members
of the American Methodist mission sought
refuge in the District Magistrates yamen,
but were refused and told they would be
protected if they returned home. Relying
upon these promises they were entirely
unprepared for the mob which soon visited
them, and had barely time to escape.
Operations were renewed by the mob at
daybreak next day. and before noon the
attack was general on all the Catholic and
Protestant mission places. The American
Methodists, from their hiding places in an
attic only six feet away, watched the mob
for twelve hours plundering their house.
Some of the 10000 soldiers in the
province assisted in the looting, and dug
up number of bones, which they took to
the district yamen, representing them to
be the bones OF babies which the foreigners