Widnes Examiner. — 1891-12-05 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

MORE REVOLTS IN CHINA.  300 CHRISTIANS MASSACRED,  PRIEM SIINDAT.—Two serious revolts have broken out on the northern side of the Great Wall of China. The origin of these risings is involved in obscurity. In one case a large insurgent band has occupied a small town to the north-east of Kinchow, and against these rebels the troops forming the garrison of Sha,nhai-kivan has been despatahed. The other rising, which has broken out in the district of Takou, due north of Kaiping, is much more serious. The local mandarins, after temparising, came to an arrangement with the insurgent leaders whereby the latter undertook to spare the inhabitants as a whole on condition that they should have free license to sack and pillage in respect of the Christians alone. As a consequence, the European missions and the houses of native Christians were handed over as a prey to the ferocity of the rebels. The most frightful atrocities were perpetrated on the unhappy people, who, after being subjected to every form of torture, were massacred to the number of 300. Of the Europeans and natives not a single soul is believed to have escaped. The Imperial Government is thoroughly alarmed at the state of affairs and Li Hung Chang is acting with great energy. He hag despatched several thousand imperial troops to the front to hold the chief points where the rebels might pass through the Great Wall. In order to si2cure greater expedition, the Viceroy has given orders to the Chinese commander to avail himself of the railway, by the use of which three days will be saved. Protestant missionaries bave abandoned Tsun Hoa, near the Great Wall, to the north-east of Pekin, the local authorities having , declared themselves unable to afford them any protection. A " Daily Chronicle" telegram. dated Tientsin via Shanghai, November 28, says—Official depatches have reached here with full details of the massacre of Christians at Takou. Previous advices gave but a faint idea of the atrocities practised. They are almost without parallel,even in China. The members of the little Belgian mission had, no opportunity of escaping. The slaughter commenced with the native converts. Many were put to death with fiendiah cruelty. Children of tender years were seized by the savages, hacked with knives, and then roasted in a huge fire. Worse still befel the nuns attached to the mission. They were subject to the I grossest indignities, and brutally outraged by the fiends, who afterwards brained them with massive clubs. The Belgian priests were crugy tortured, but met their fate with extreme resignation. In one case heart and tongue were torn from the body and burned by the savages in their murderous frenzy. The most astounding statement is that after the miscreants had been satiated with outrage and slaughter they were feasted and feted by a leading Chinese mandarin in the district. The foreign diplomatic body at Pekin are simply furious. The whole European colony is boiling over with indignation. The news from Mongolia is increasingly serious. The rebel forces are reported to be growing larger,and their forward march has continued so far uninterrup'edly. The Imperial troops have not yet got into touch with the rebels. Further detachments of troops have been ordered forward. The rebels in their southward march have occupied towns without resistance. and requisitioned supplies from the inhabitants. It is reported that they have captured the large town of Leno-Yang.