The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-29
Grave Advices
Received.
CHRISTIANS KILLED.
Missionaries Massacred
With Shocking Brutality.

Victoria, B. c., Nov 2S.-The steamer
Glenogle has arrived here, after a
tempestuous passage, bringing an in
teresting budget of news from the east
From Tien Tsin comes news which
shows that Japan has decided to re-
sist Russian aggression. She is pre-
pairing to drive the cars troops from
Corea, and to this end large detach-
ments of troops are being landed in the
Hermit kingdom
News is also at hand from Tien Tsin
that a large number of japanese have
been captured by the Russians at Port
Arthur.
Seven japanese, all officers of the inn
perial Japanese army, were taken, and
on their persons were found drawings
Of the principal fortificaUons. Only a
day elapsed after their capture before
they We're marched out before a firing
party of Russians and summarily
shot.
The rebels in Chung King, according
to advices by tie C'7uogle are in
creasing in power daily. The TCng Lii
arg and How Chow railway is com
pletely under their control. They have
compelled well-to-do people TO provide
them with money and provisions, ano
are making weapons day and night
Merchants in Chung King have wired
to Shanghai and other coast ports
stopping the shipment Of goods. The
rebels are daily committing atrocities
of every sort and kind. one of THEN
| leaders went to the governor of Lung
Shut Chin and demanded a large sun
of money, was refused, and the rebels
1000 strong, plundered the town, killing
hundreds
Two days afterward they went t.
Tung LANG and demolished all the
houses of the Christians, massacreins
those who tried to escape with shock
ing brutality. They then decared that
they had gone to that city especially
to oppose foreigners and Christians
Others, they said, were not to be mo-
Tested, unless they offered resistance
The French priests and a missionary
had gone TO the magistrates yemen 1oI
shelter, and late in the afternoon the
rebels went to the magistrate and ask
ed that they be delivered up. The mag
is.rates refused but they afterWard re-
Tented and allowed the rebels to enter
the yemen to take the missionaries
The Methodist drew a revolver ana re-
sisted and he was at once Killed Inc
two French priests were bound and
carried away as prisoners.
The rebels then retired to Wang Choa
Tung. They are, it is said, seizing ana
numbering Christians almost daily
According to reports from Chemulpo,
matters have reached a grave crisis IN
Corea. The emperor is being worried
to death with petitions by the lndepen-
dency Club, who are forcing his hand
to dismiss some of the higher ministers,
when the whole phalanX Of the lnde-
tendency Club will invade the palace
an7 take charge of the governments
affairs.
The execution of the unfortunates
accused of the attempt to poison the
emperor, was a CHASTITY affair, The
doomed were taken from the scaffold
on which they were to have been exc
cuted, by a mob. Then began one of
the most grewsome exhibitions of saw
agery and bloodthirstiness ever seen in
any land. The condemned men were
actually torn to pieces by the mob, and
even when life was extinct, the most
devilish indignities imaginable were
heaped on the mangled and bleeding re-
mains.
Considerable excitement prevails in
Pekin among the Manchu faction over
the action of the empress dowager in
rrea 1NriV Of