New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-09-05
MISSIONARIES OPPOSE LII.
THEY SEND DETAILS OF THE TORTURE
AND MASSACRE OF FOREIGNERS.

The Rev. DR.. Dodd. Of the secretaries OF the
Methodist Episcopal Missionary Society, received
q cable dispatch from Shanghai yesterday signed
Central China" The message follows:
Protest Government against evacuation Picking
to missions
The message referred TO the Rev Dr. Homer
Eaton treasurer Of the society. AS several Of the
officers OF the society are absent from the city no
action taken regarding the dispatch. DR.
Eaton said he could not see any justification for
any popular cutlery demanding cur withdrawal from
Peking but on the other hand he hardly felt able
TO offer any advice himself to the authorities at
Washington. The message WILL however, be for
warded to the State Department for it's information
as to the sentiment of the members of the Meth
odist missionaries in Central China
Robert E speer, of the Presbyterian Board Of
Foreign Missions received a number of letters
from Presbyterian missionaries in China yesterday.
DR.. Samuel Cochran, of the Marking station
writes frcm Arima, Japan August s. He says:
We have Just heard of the decapitation of nine
1sIII1onaFieSnseVen adults and two ehiidrepsouth
from Honan Il think with the tendons of his
wrists and legs cut, gripping him for life. It Is
but there Is no doubt that things are being done
now in China that will make the ears of the whole
world Jingle: They say there are five hundred
China inland nigsonaries in the interior some
persesued by the magsrae IN q5e sn geg openly
thousands have already been killed.
The Rev. W. D Elterlch writes from che-Foo
july 81, as follows:
hfaF ths in the bss BY Of making
march 2Q0o0 troops from Tsing-Tau to Picking. II
is certain that they intend use drastic
70 preserve order In the province in order that
they can go on with the building Of their railroad
The Rev Henry V. Noyes, writing from Canton
confirms previous reports that the authorities there
are making extensive preparations resist foreign
attack Nevertheless the intelligent Cantonese
appear to favor the policy Of protecting the foreign
ers which in former times of excitement had not
been the The bad treatment accorded the
Cantonese by the Boxers in the north stimulated
their feeling.
The Rev J. W. Lowre writes from Tien-Tsin
on July 25 He says letter had been found in
the Vceroy's yamen which was evidently written
by officer at Pao-Ting- Fu There was a massacre
| in Pao-Fing-Fu but particulars have ever been
received by the outside world. Mr.. Iowrie trans
! lates part of the letter as follows:
! About p of the 4th inst. June 800 the
! burned by Boxers six seven foreigners and
/ native Christians being killed On the morning of
| the 9Th inst. they burned the chapel residences
| foreigners and native Christians were killed l do
| not yet know.
The Presbyterian mission in the north suburb
| and the American Board (Congrega tionalisD and
! China Inland Missions in the south suburb. Dr. g
| Yardley Taylor and the Rev r. E. Simcox Mrs.
| Simcox and three children are supposed TO have
| persisted at Pso-Ting-Fu.
| s.Elilar letter to the VceFoy's secretary said
1 that the provincial treasurer Pao-Ting-Fu had
offered 1900 tasls a reward for the destruction
! Of the Roman Catholic village ten miles distant
| fence although the siege had then lasted two
| months.