Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1895-06-11

WAsHINGToE June Tho Chinese To-
cation has no information Of the reported
massacre
Chengtu is o large city IN the interior
Of China, far from the centers Of foreign
commerce. The treaty Of pence with Japan
designates Chungking IN the same PROV
ince as one of several new places to be
opened TO foreigners. This, il is explained,
probably has agitated tho people who have
lived by themselves from time immemo-
rial
Missionaries are tho only Foreigners who
have settled heretofore at Chongtu. Their
number, including their families in the
entire province Of Sechuen. of which
Chengtu is the capital. must DO less than
100. The mission headquarters is at Cheng-
tn, where it is believed there are not to ex-
coed ten missionaries. This estimate is
based ON the general information Of Chi
nese legation officials, who have no pre-
cso figures Of the missionary service In
China
The emperor Of China and the tsung-li-
yameD, it is said have given every posi-
bic protection TO tho missionaries, although
1t has been found impossible TO guard
against mob violence particularly at re-
mote interior points. The Chinese govern.
ment has asked foreign governments to
appreciate these difficulties, and has ad-
vised that the missionaries be kept within
safe limits. But zeal has led missionaries
to push forward TO places where the Chi
nese officials have had difficulty In afford
ing protection.
Tho Peking authorities have placed up
on. the provincial viceroys the rosponsi-
bility Of protecting missionaries and the
yicoroys understanding that they will DO
degraded il mobs disturb missions arc ac-
tive in suppressing outbreaks.
The New viceroy Blamed.
A new yioeroy has just boen installed al
Chengtu, and this circumstance, added TO
the agitation over opening the province to
foreigners, may account for disturbances
there.
wuohang, the place to which French
warship is said 20 have been sent, is a
large interior town on the river Yangtse.
kiang. Large vessels can ascend the river
to Wuohang. but no farther
The French ambassador, NJ patenotre
who represented his government at Pc
. king some ton years ago and negotiated
the treaty by which Tonquin became a
French province, doubts the report that
th1 0AAAAAhnl hiu ulrHhtlllN-
bearing upon the alleged massacre When
he was in China, he said, he always had
free communication both with his govern.
ment and with the admiral of the French
fleet. He says it is possible for French
gnnboat to go up the Yangtse-kiang river
as far as Hankow.
by referring to some documents at the
legation NJ. Patenotre ascertained that
there arc about 100 Catholic missions in
China, "a French and 25 Italian.
1t Is said that many English women
have gone into western China purposely
to oppose the practice in some sections Of
throwing babes in the rivers as a part Of
the religious rites.
State department. officials think an er.
ror has been made in the name OF the
place where the massacre is said to have
occurred. 1t is believed that instead Of
Chengtu the name should bo Changte, the
capital cf Human province, where there
are a number Of missionaries and th,
antjforeign feeling Is strong In 1893 ths
missionaries were kept for some time in
terror by the display Of Tlacards abusing
the foreign devils, and warning tho ma.
tives against sfiliating with them
Changte is accessible to small gunboats.