Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-31

Through as a result of the minister 5
downfall. As a result of the general
lchaos in China. the Manchurian loan
has been definitely refused. The at
Ititude of capitalists here has evident
| ~ changed and they are not likely to
entertain any loan proposition from
Pekin for some time.
| Shanghai, oct CA wireless message
from the British warships at Hankow
says that the Imperalists are burning
the native city of Hankow and that the
entire advance of the government forces
| is marked with hideous brutality.
| London. oct. 9O-A dispatch from
Shanghai says that after the hard fought
| capture of Hankow the Imperalists DELHI
| erately set fire to the native city Hun
dreds of wounded revolutionists persisted
| in the holocaust.
Boston. oct. 3O-In view of the pos
sible danger threatening the foreign
missionaries and missionary property
in China as a result of the recent up
rising. the American Board of Com
missioners for Foreign Missions,
through the foreign secretary, James
l.. Barton of Boston, has issued the
following statement of statistics re-
garding the missionaries and missions
situated in China.
within the bounds of the Chinese
empire there are, according to the lat
est collected statistics, 1900 Protestant
missionaries and 4501 Roman Catholic
missionaries, the latter including the
sisters, as the former includes wives
and single women. This makes to-
tai of over 5000 foreign missionaries
within the provinces of China. The
Catholic missionaries are almost, II
not wholly, Europeans. There are Al
American and Canadian foreign mis-
sionary societies carrying on work in
China, represented in that country al
the present time by over 1So0 foreign
missionaries, natives of America and
Canada These include Al ordained
men. with 1870 other men, including
physicians
The Protestant missionaries occupy
a37 principal stations, at which the
missionaries reside and which eonsti=
tute centers from which they carry
on work The American missionaries
occupy 252 places, including the princi
pal great tiAttS VI t<itliitls INK ttGiFNcHNf
Shanghai, Pekin. Pao-Ting-Fu Chang
sha, Canton, Annoy, etc. In all of these
a52 eenters property has been acquired
and in some places large and extensive
institutions in the form of churches,
schools, colleges and hospitals have
been erected. over 1900 other places
are occupied with buildings of more
or less Importance. There is no re,
erd of the total amount of American
funds invested in these institutions,
but it amounts to many millions OF
dollars. The annual expenditure OF
these American societies in the con-
duet of the work in China probably
! exceeds two millions of dollars.
The schools conducted by all the
! Protestant societies in China had. last
year, 70,50O pupils, and in the Roman
| Catholic schools. including orphan
ages. there were 141 600 pupils, making
| 81, 0da--in all-Chinese youths in train
| ing in Christian Mission schools.
The Protestant societies have Is coll
| leges and institutions of higher train
/ ing. in which choice Chinese young
man and women are receiving col
| lege education. These colleges are in
/ the great political and commercial CEN
| tiers of population. The most OF these
| are conducted by the American soeie-
| ties and represent the investment OF
| Amrican funds.
There are now nearly million and
a half Chinese who are registered
! either as members of Christian
churches or as adherents of the Chris
| tan cause.
The largest American societies car
rying on work in China are the Board
! of Foreign Missions of the Presbyte-
rian church. L. 5. A, with headquar-
tiers in New York with a total of "a
missionaries in the field: the Board OF
| Foreign Missions of the Methodist
| Fpiscopal church, with headquarters
in New York. 2H; the American Bap-
list Foreign Mission Society, Will
| Headquarters in Boston, 123; tbs
american Board of Commissioners for
Foreign Missions, with headquarters
in Boston, 1l3; Domestic and Foreign
Missionary Society of the protestant
Episcopal church, with headquarters
IN New York, 116; Foreign MISSION
Board, Southern BAPTIST Convention
with headquarters in Richmond, va.
112; Missionary Board of the South
: ern Church. Canadian, with headquar-
f. tors in Toronto, Canada.
) New York Oct 30.-The Board o
; Foreign Missions for the Methohls
| Episcopal church received cable
5 gram this morning from Rev. j. +
/ Bassford At Shanghai, SAYING in part
I'm company with Dr. Ganeweii,
have visited during the last week al
the central China stations eXeep
5 Nanchang., On the night of the 29ti
we swere shipWrecked but after 81
hours were rescued. Both the govern
ment and the revolutionary forces ar
friendly to the missionaries. All gu
work in China continues with the eH
ception of the schools in Kiukiane
: These have been temporarily sus
r pended. Any forecast of the progress
of events is impossible"
q Hankow, oct. 30.-A dispatch from
. lI-Chang says that a court official wh'
refused to relinquish his keys wal
killed by rebels. Several Manchu of
ficials also were killed. The rebels ar
I