St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-08-05
BRITISH SUBJECTS WERE
KILLED IN THE OUTRAGES
AT VIVA SANG.
ALL AMERICANS ARE SAFE
THOUGH A NUMBER ARE WOUND.
ED-SUBJECTED TO HORRI-
BILE INDIGNITIES,
Treaty Powers Decide to Admin
- Affairs in Ar
menia.

pdlcn TO the Times says that the mis-
sion and Sanitarium at Wha Sang.
near Kucheng, province of Fokein,
have been attacked and ten British
subjects killed
Rev. Mr.. Stewart, wife and child,
were burned in their house. The
Misses Yellow and Marshall, two
sisters named Saunders, two sisters
named Gordon and Steetie New
combe were murdered with spears
and swords. Miss Codrington was
seriously wounded about the head,
and Stewards eldest child had a
knee cap badly injured, while the
youngest had an eye gouged out.
Rev. Mr.. Phillips, with two Ameri-
cans, DR.. Gregory and Miss Hart
ford, were both wounded, but ar
rived safely at Fuchaufu. The pre-
feet of Chengfu, who was on the in
quiry commission, is seriously impli-
Gated with the Chengfu outrages.
The Times says of the above: REV.
Mr.. Stewart resides at Kucheng and
superintends the work of the pre-
lectures Of Kucheng and Pingnang.
Rev. Mr.. Stewart, writing under
date of February, 1895, described how
a sect known as Vegetarians, taking
advantage of the war, sprang into
vigorous life, and committed nu-
merous outrages and became SO
formidable that the converts wanted
him to organize and arm. He con-
cludes his letter as follows: I have
just learned that 10000 of these have
enlisted in the last six months. They
are mostly of the lowest order, and
at the present time the reins of
government are practically in their
hands,
The Times comments editorialIy
on the massacre as follows: 1.-The
kucheng outrages will justly form
the subject of strong representations
to China by England, and probably
by America also. 1t is quite posi-
BILE that the outrages are due to the
embittered feeling against foreigners
engendered by the calamities of the
war, and that the Mandarins believe
that a
BLOW MUST BE STRUCK
now or never to frighten foreigners
against availing themselves of the
concessions granted under the rec 4nt
China-Japanese treaty.
A two-column from Hankau, on
the Caes Szu Chuen mission out
RACES, published in the Times this
morning declares that officials are at
the bottom of all anti-foreign feel
ing, and that the Chinese people
themselves are quite friendly. The
letter suggests that if the powers
tried a little benevolent retaliation
it would prove an infallible cure.
The Standard, in it's editorial on
the Kucheng outrage, says: I'VE
must speak to China in a manner
which cannot be misunderstood Not
only must the murderers be pun
ished, but thorough example must
be made of the officials whose neg
lect permits such outrages."
The Standards special from
Shanghai says that the news of the
massacre was suppressed for three
days by the Chinese officials.
j. Courtney HiXson, the American
consul at Flu Chau, with several vol
unteers, went to the scene in a
steam launch and brought back the
wounded Americans.
EXPERIENCES TERRIBLE.
''Their experiences" the dispatch
continues, ''were terrible, and death
WAS the least part of the sufferipgs
of the butchered women. The indigna-
ton here is intense. A mass meeting
will be convened tomorrow. The man.
darins will endeavor to throw all the
blame upon the secret societies, but it
is known that they were encouraged
by responsible officials. The Chinese
are revealing their old tactics of cut
ting telegraphic communication
Another Flu Chau telegraphic COM
munication received here says that all
the murdered ladies belonged to the
Church of England, Zoana mission.
Miss Hartwell Hartford) was fear
fully injured, and bears evidence of
the fearful treatment and cruelty she
received at the hands of the mob
Several English and American chill
dren have been killed.
The massacre commenced early on
Thursday at Whai Han, near Kuch-
eng. The houses were fired, and eight
ladies, a man and a child were killed,
and several were wounded, two prob
ably mortally. The bodies are expect
ed to arrive at Flu Chau tomorrow.
The Chinese troops have been dis
patched to the scene. The British and
American consuls will have an inter
view with the viceroy tomorrow.
AMERICANS ESCAPED.
HONG KONG, Aug. ALI those who
We're killed are British. All the Amer
leans escaped. There was no provo
cation for the outrages. The perpetra-
tors We're the Vegetarins society.