The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-08-24
Frightful Massacre of English and
American Missionaries.
BUTCHER WOMEN AND CHILDREN.
COndiGn Punishment to be Melted cut.
Chinese Must be Taught Lesson That
Will be Respected Forever Secret
Societies Blamed-Indignation Intense

LONDON, Aug. 4.-The Telegraph
tomorrow will print dispatch from
Shanghai, stating that the massacre
at Kucheng occurred on July 31st.
The officials suppressed the news fol
three days. The names of the killed
are:
Miss Elsie Marshall, Miss Annie
Goodwin, Miss Bessie Newcombe and
Miss Flora Stewart, all OF the Eng
lish Zenana Mission; Miss Nellie
Saunders, Rev. DR.. Stewart, and Mrs.
Stewart, of the Church Missionary
Society.
Five of Mr.. and Mrs. Stewards chill
dren were killed and two survive.
One had knee broken and the other,
baby, lost an eye.
The following were saved: Miss
Hartford, of the American Mission;
Miss CoddingtOn, of the English Ze-
mana Mission, and Rev. S. Phillips, of
the English Church Missionary So
ciety.
United States Consul Eixson, who
is stationed at Foo Chow, with a party
of volunteers upon receipt of the news
of the massacre started on a steam
launch for the scene and has returned,
bringing with him the wounded
Americans.
The experiences of the survivors
were terrible. They say that death
was the least part of the sufferings of
the butchered women
The Indignation here is intense.
Nevertheless; the many warships in
the harbor are idle. A mass meeting
has been arranged for tomorrow to
protest against the lack of energy on
the part Of the authorities and to urge
that reparatiOn be made and that the
guilty persons be punished.
The mandarins endeavOr to blame
certain secret societies for the outrage.
The Europeans, however regard this
as nonsense. The officials are renew
ing their old tactics of stopping tele-
grams.
The reports of the outrage are badly
mixed. The latest says it is now
known that ten persons were killed,
including Miss Lena Stewart and DR..
Stewards whole family, except two.
The American missionaries, Miss
Hartford and DR.. Gregory, escaped,
but the former was fearfully mangled.
Several English and American chill
dren were killed.
The London Standard tomorrow
will demand that the murderers be
visited with condign punishment and
that stern example be made of the
officials who virtually connived at the
commission of the crime. The paper
will say:
'If the Emperor cannot or will not
protect British residents we must give
him assistance of kind he will not
welcome"
The Chronicle will say it trusts that
Great Britain and the United States
will combine to teach the Chinese a
lesson that will cause foreigners to be
forever, but, in view of the
existing in the country,
the bodies sending missionaries there, |
women, incur the gravest |
The whole question,
the Chronicle adds, ought to be recon- |
Sidered.
The Times will say: ''The outrage |
must, of course, form the subject Of |
strong representation to China from |
England and probably from the |
United States. 1t must not be passed |
over as a trif1e. Immunity of the |
would cause a standing me- |
mace to the lives and property of the |
whole European community in |
China"