The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-09-08
CHINESE MASSACRES.
Blood of Men and Women Often Shed
In Recent Years.

Blood of Men and Women Often She
In Recent Years
The pages Of modern Chinese histor.
are stained with blood-the blood o
helpless and defenceless men and WON
en-. Since the days when Europeans
first went to the Far East but espec
tally during the last forty years. there
has been constant succession Of bru
tai murders-murders usually brought
about solely by the passionate hatred
Of the yellow man for the white.
One of the most characteristic oil
these was the Ku-Cheng massacre or
August ], 1895. The Church Missionary
Society has a very successful enterprise
in that city. There were many converts
and no one dreamed of any danger
Five women missionaries lived in one
house on the hills beyond the city dur
ing the summer heat. and close to them
lived Mr. Stewart the missionary in
charge, his wife and fve children.
August / was the birthday of one of
the children, so early IN the morning
I three OF his brothers and sisters got up
! and went out on the hills TO gather
| flowers Hearing horns and drums,
they ran to look nt the procession. One
Chinaman seized the eldest girl by the
hair and beat her She tore herself
| from him and made for home, to find
the house occupied by the mob. She
caught a glimpse of her father making
for her mothers room, and then no
more was seen of either OF them. See
ing the house burning, she got her lit
tie brothers and sisters and dragged
them off. The baby was pulled from
under, the body of its dead nurse Her
two brothers and her little sister were
all wounded
An American missionary, hearing the
riot, rushed up TO help, but he was too
late In the brief time nine had been
murdered, and two of the children soon
died. The story of the death of these
brave girls one of whom Miss Marshall,
was the daughter of a Blackheath
vicar, went with a thrill of horror
through the land
Why We're they murdered? A procla-
nation had been issued among the peo-
pie as follows:
Notice is hereby given that at the
present time foreign barbarians' are
hiring evil characters to kidnap small
children, that they may extract oil
from them for use. 7 have a female
servant named Ii who has personally
seen this done. I exhort you, good peo-
pie, not to allow your children to go
out I hope you will act In accordance
with this"
The mob did act on It,
The experience of Lord Loeb and his
companions In 1857 present a tale of
horror rarely equalled.
Henry Loeb, then a young man of
thirty, was attached to Lord Elgin's
punitive mission in China. Messrs
Wade and Parkes the English inter-
prefers, we're sent forward by Lord
Elgin, under a flag of truce. to arrange
the terms of peace with the Chinese.
and for part Of the way Loeb accom-
panied them. They saw that things
looked threatening so Loeb tried to get
back to the allied English and French
generals, to tell them of the danger.
He and Mr.. Parkes, who were together
at one spot were seized their arms
bound, and they were led out to be be-
headed In an outer court. A sudden
tumult gave them a respite. Every
possible indignity was inflicted on them.
They were threatened. Knocked, tightly
bound, tortured. Swords were waved
over them to brighten them Last Of
all, they were heavily manacled, showed
into a rough native cart and driven to
Picking.
The tortures of that ride were indes-
cribabe At the best of times, with
o. - ;r- -, at
that rough road. But to these men,
bound, bruised expecting instant death,
it was torment beyond degree. Forty
years afterward Lord Loeb would new
err recall 1t, the memories We're so pain
full
At Picking they were hurried into the
native prison, separated from each
other, and left dependent on the kind
ness of the Chinese criminals around
them The thirteen French and twenty
three English who had been with them
before their capture, We're also seized
and placed under strong guard.
When the English and French armies
got to the gates of Picking some of these
captives returned.
On July q, 1870, came the Infamous
Tien- Tsin massacre. The French Cath
Ole Sisters of Mercy had established a
mission in Tien-Tsin, and one Of their
agencies was an orphan home. A re-
port got about among the natives that
the sisters were killing the children to
use their hearts and eyes in the manu-
facture of some medical specific sought
after in Europe.
Every one saw that storm was COM
ing and the French Consul was urged
to take such steps as would show the
SANDER to be false. But the Consul
thought such a request was a slur on
his dignity, and refused to listen to it,
The Consul paid for his dignity with
his life. No one fully knows what hap
pened, for every European on the spot
was done to death. The defenceless
Sisters were butchered after nameless
and the French cathedral
and orphanages We're set on fire, |
twenty foreigners, including a Russian
and his young bride, who were mis-
taken for French, were slain
For the moment it seemed that a gen
eral uprising, such as that of the pres
ent hour, must follow. But in the end |
he Chinese authorities subdued the up !