Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-06-11
THE MASSACRE IN CHINA
Reports of Fearful Slaughter of
 Missionaries Confirmed.
UNPROTECTED FROM THE MoBs

A New Viceroy Would Not Shelter the Vic.
 tims-AGitation Against "ForeiSn DeviIs- Has Been Spreading In These Provinces. The French SeIid a warShIp.
 SHANGHAI, June lI.-The report of the total destruction of the missions at Cheng. tn, kiating and Yochou has been confirm. cd. The local officials refused protection to tho missionaries until tho mob com pleted the work of domolshing the build. ings.
 Tho mission stations at other places have becn threatened. About 20 adults, besides a number of childron, have taken refuge at Chengtu and Iamon. Niceroy Lin is blamed for the affair.
 Dangerous Place For Missionaries.
 WAsHINGToN, June ll.-The Chinese Ie- gation has no information of the reported massaCre
 Chengtu is largo city in the interior of China, far from tho centers of foreign commerce. The treaty of peace with Japan designates Chungking. in tho same prov ince, as one of several new places to be opened to foreigners. This, it is explained, probably has aGitated the people who have lived by themselves from time immemo- rial
 Missionaries are the only foreigners who have settled heretofore at ChCngtu Their number, including their families. in the entire province of Sechuen. of which Chengtu is the capital. must he less than loo. The mission headquarters is at ChenG- tn, whero it is believed thero arc not to cx- ceed ten missionaries. This estimate is based on the general information of Chi neSe legation officials, who have no pre- else figures of the missionary service in China.
 The emperor of China and the tsung-li- yamen, it is said, have given every possI- b!e protection to the missionaries although 1t has been found impossible to guard against mob violence particularly at re- mote interior points. The Chinese govern mont has asked foreign governments to appreciate these difficulties, and has ad- visod that the missionaries be kept within safe limits. But zeal has led missionaries to push forward to places whero tho Chi nese officials have had difficulty in afford ing protection.
 The Peking authorities have placed up- on the provincial viceroys the responsi. bility of protecting missionaries and tho vicoroys, understanding that they will be degraded if mobs disturb missions, are ac- tive in suppressing outbreaks.
 The New Viceroy Blamed.
 A new viooroy has just been installed at Chengtu, and this circumstance, added to the agitation over opening tho province to foreigners, may account for disturbances thore
 Wuchang the place to which a French warship is said to have been sent. is a large interior town on tho river Yangtsc- kiang. Large vessels can Nscond the river to Wuchang. but no farther
 The French eml,assad0r, NJ. PatCaotre who represented his government at Pc king some ten years ago and negotiated the treaty by which Tonquin became a French province, doubts the report that the Chinese arc interccpting dispatches bearing upon the alleged massacre. When he was in China. he said. he always had frCc communication both with his govcrn- mont and with the admiral of tho French fleet. lic says it is possible for a Frcnch gunboat to go up tho Iangtso kiang river as far as Hankow.
 By referring to some documents at the legation M Patonotre aSrvrtained that thcro arc about loo Catholic missions in China, t4 French and 9 Italian
 It is said that many English women haVe gone into western China purposely Ut oPpo>e the practice III SOno sections or throwing babes in the rivers as a part of the religious rites.
 State department officials think an CT TOT has bccn made in the name of the place where the massacre is said to have occurred It is believed that instead of Chengtu the namo should Do ChanCte tho capital of Human province, where thCre aro number of missionaries and the antifureGn foeling is strong In 1893 the missionaries were kept for some time in terror by the display of lacards abusing the foreign devils. and warning the na- tives against atliliating with them Changtc is accessible to small gunboatS.