The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-08-06
The MASSACRE.
Could Have Been easily Prevented by
"',,nese Officials.
AN AMERICAN MISSION DESTROYED
Former Occupants Forced TO
Become Fugitlves.

LONDON, Aug 6.-The correspondent Of
Tho Times at Shanghai says that tho mis-
siorarics killed at Ku-Chcng we're MUIR
dcred by an organized band OF 50 OF the
Vcgetarians.
The correspondent says that the ladies
begged for their lives, promising To yield
their property and valuables, but the
leader of the band shouted ont his orders
TO Kill them outright. A corrected list OF
the Victims Is AS follows: Rev. Mr.. and
Mrs. stewart, Miss Nellie Saunders, Miss
Lena Irish, burned I'm the house, Miss
S.stt.e - Ncwcombo was speared and
thscwn down prccipice; Miss Marshall
had her teroat cut; Miss Gordon, speared
In the head; Miss Topsy Saunders, speared
Ia the brain; Master Herbert Stewart,
skn,l fractured and brain exposed; Lena
Stewart, died from shock.
The correspondent concludes: -Four
o,hsr Stewart children and Miss Codring-
ton were seriously wounded
Might Have Been Prevented.
The Chinese magistrate at Ku-Cheng
waited for the completion or the massacre
before appearing upon the scene there.
There are 1000 soldiers at Ku-Cheng. IL
is therefore absurd TO say the authorities
could not have stopped the massacre,
which was evidently carefully and secretly
organized. g
The American mission at SASH, near
Han-Kow has been destroyed, and the
missionaries are fugitives. The American
consul has advised the missionaries in
adjacent provinces to retire.
Some of the speakers at meeting here
yesterday declared that they haye lost con-
fcenoe in the diplomats at Pekin, United
States Minister DENLY and British Minis
tor O'Connor being especially denounced.
The Americans desire special commits
sion under United States Consul Jernigan
10 inquire into the outrages in Sze-Chuen.
The minister of Corea has also assentcd 10
this.
" is Just learned that after the Ku-
Chsng massacre the mob looted the build
ings
Pitiable Condition of Armenians.
LONDON, Aug. 6.-Advices dated Ar
menia, July 20, say: The condition OF
the Armenians is worse than ever. They
regard Shakir Pasha as their worst enemy,
and his appointment as contemptuous de-
fiancc Of Europe's demand. Deliberate
persecution, slaughter and pillage of the
Armenians are pursued today with the
same ruthless vigor and fiendish ingenuity
as in former years. Arms are distributed
among the Moslems in the frontier dis
tricts, and every day news arrives of fresh
murders, wholesale imprisonment and
pillage II the sultan is courting revolu-
tion, ne will surely have his way. Unless
the persecution is stopped, the country
a T.. n. t1..f Ina Shnv
of Russian occupation will extinguish 1t
Newspaper Sentiment.
The Standard demands that the mur
derers of the missionaries In China bt
visited with condign punishment. and
that stern example be made of the Off
cials who virtually connived at the com
mission of the crime.
The paper seys: Ii the emperor cannot oi
will not protect British residents, we must
give him assistance of a kind he will not
welcome.
The Chronicle trusts Great Britain and
| the United States will combine TO teach
! the Chinese lesson that will cause for
| eigners to he respe .ted forever, but in view
of the conditions existing in the country
the bodies sending missionaries there, es
pecially women, incur the gravest respon
sibility. The whole question, The Chron
icle adds ought 10 be considered.
The Times says: The outrage must, o
course, form the subject of strong repre-
sentations 10 China from England, anC
probably from the United States also. L
must not be passed over as a trifle. I'm
munity Of the murderers would cause |
standing menace to the lives and propcrt.
of the whole European community II
| China