The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-08-27
0UTRAGES IN CHINA
THE CAUSES OF THEM AS SET
FORTH BY A CHINESE
NEWSPAPER.
THE FOUR RINGLEaDERs EXECUTED

The Missionaries are Imposed Upon by
INSCRIPTIONS Linguists With Whom
No Decent Chinaman Will Have
Anything to DO--TwO Ways of Get
ting Converts--Y Girls Kid
mapped by Interpreters, Kept at the
Missions and Sold rs Slaves.
CHICAGO, ILL.,, Aug. 26.--Sam Moy, a
prominent Chinese merchant of Chicago,
says that a Chinese paper he has just re-
ceived gives the Chinese version of the
attacks upon the English and American
missionaries.
According to this Chinese paper, the
attack developed a serious condition of
affairs. 1t was found that the Easements
of missionary houses were closely
guarded by the disreputable Chi
nese hapgers-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
pige IN 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 in
stead of the mountains, as the fugitives
from justice for more serious crimes do.
In time the petty crime is forgotten or
or compounded or the fellow com s
back, but is regarded as a social out
cast.
The advent of the missionary opens a
new field for unscrupulous linguists.
The missionary has to have an interpre
ter. The outcast is ready to act, and
also to become a convert anything for
an easy living. He becomes q member
of the missionary staff aud the bouse-
hold. The missionary wants converts; !;
the hanger-on wants 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 chill
dren and keeping and teaching them.
Good missionaries, the paper says, do
not allow any kidnapping, but most of
the missionaries, while good people them
selves, don't know how bad their native
staff is. 1t is the native staff under the
lead of tough interpreters which does the
kidnapping and the missionaries are
fooled.
One of the interpreters steals child,
say twelve years old, and finds out that
her parents are poor or careless people,
not likely to make much of a fuss at her
disappearance. He cOaxes the child to
visit the mission, and often force has to
be used. The missionary is told by
the unscrupGlous interpreter, that
the child wishes to become a
Christian, that she wants to live in the
mission and wants to be instructed, or
some other invention which seems to be
plausible, and something is added to
show the Importance of guarding the
new candidate from recapture by the
heathen relatives, who, the missionary is
assured, would do so to prevent the per-
version of the child's faith.
AS the missionary cannot talk to the
child he trusts his interpreter, who,
utterly unscrupulous, practically has
possession of the girl. She is slave for
the time being, and he uses Che mission to
keep her safe and out of sight until he
can sell her and get the money for her.
The burning of the missions freed
some of the girls, who told the stories OF
their kidnapping, 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 mis-
sionaries and interpreters indiscrimi.
nately.
The governor of Fo-Kien sent 1,00(
soldiers up to Min river to quell the riot
and restore order, but the bandits joined
with the rabble and whipped the soldiers
The soldiers lost half their number anC
| had to retreat.
At the time the paper was printed, i
was said the whole section was in con
troll of the mob.
Four of the Ring Leaders Executed.
LONDON, Aug. 26.-The correspon
dent of the Pail Mall Gazette at Shang
Hal telegraphs that according to advice
received there from Oheng-Tu four o
the ring leaders of the recent massacr
of missionaries have been executed.