St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-08-20
HEATHEN CHINESE MAKING
MORE TROUBLE FOR 9TH
Err NATIONS.
INVESTIGATION is REFUSED.
CONSULS NOT ALLOWED TO PUR-
SUE THE MASSACRE IN
CURRY.
PLUNDERING THE FOREIGNERS.
Members of the Chinese Legation
Blame Local Officials for the
Present Situation.

SHANGHAI, Aug. 10. - A dispatch
to the Mercury from Foo Chow says
1t is reported on good authority there
that the Chinese government has re-
fused to allow the American and Brit
1Sh conSulS, j. G. HiXSon and r. T.
Mansfield, who accompanied the COM
mission appointed to investigate the
recent masSacreS of missionaries and
their families at Ku Cheng, to make
any investigation into the circum-
stances of the massacre
CANNOT EVEN ATTEND.
HONG KONG, Aug. 19.-The project
sent with the commission to Ku Cheng,
together with the Chinese officials at
Ku Cheng, have refused to allow the
presence of the consuls during the ex-
animation Of the prisoners. The mat
ter has been referred to the viceroy
Serious trouble is feared.
FOREIGNERS PLUNDERED.
LONDON, Aug. 2O.-The Times has
a dispatch from Hong Kong confirm
ing the Shanghai dispatches containing
the report that the Chinese govern
ment has refused to allow the Amer
lean and British consuIs to make any
investigation into the Ku Cheng mas
sacre. The Times dispatch adds that
soldiers are engaged in plundering the
people, who feel that the foreigners
are the cause of their suffering, and
that therefore the latter should be des-
troyed. Further incendiary placards
have been posted at Canton.
LOCAL OFFICIALS BLAMED.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 19.-The Off
Gals of the Chinese legation have no
information throwing any light on the
reported refusal of the home govern
ment to permit the members of the
British and American commission to
investigate the Ku Cheng massacre.
In fact, the legation has not yet been
appraised officially of the appointment
of the commission. The only explana-
ton given as a reason for the reported
refusal is that the action reported to
have been taken was by the Chinese
local officials, who possibly have not
been informed by the central govern
ment of the appointment of the COM
mission to make the investigation, the
local officials acting merely on their
own inclination in the premises. If
the reported action of the Chinese be
correct, it is apparently not a matter
of very great surprise to the officials
of the state department here. They
attribute any refusal of the local au-
thorities to permit the commission to
investigate the troubles to the we'll
known desires of the Chinese to con-
duct such inquiries by their own peo-
pie, the dislike of having any interfer-
ence by outsiders, and to the general
suspiciousness with which they look
upon foreigners.
NOTHING NEW ABOUT IT.
The present troubles, the officials
say, are not dissimilar in any mate
rial respect from others that have oc-
Cured from time to time in the diplo-
matte history of the governments in
terested, and a glance at the British
and American bluebooks will substan-
tiate this statement. A somewhat
similar case to the present, it is said,
Is found in that of Raymond Margery,
a British officer in the consular SER
vice, who was killed IN the province of
Yunan fifteen or sixteen years ago.
In this instance the British govern
ment demanded reparation, and the
appointment of a commission to make
an investigation resulted. At first
there was decided objection by the
local officials to having foreigners take
part in the inquiry, but the matter was
finally adjusted in a way apparently
satisfactory to the British. 1t is not
feared here, in official circles, but that
any complications that may have
arisen in the present case will be adj
justed and ample PREPARATION be made
for the lives that were lost in the Ku
Cheng. massacre.