Liverpool Weekly Courier. — 1893-08-26 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

IMO. The crowd soon found their way into the house, calling out for the foreigners. Hai Mg searched through the house, it became clear to the mob that the foreigners were in the loft, and thither they directed their missiles, many finding their way in at the small aperture by which the poor fellows had crept in. In desperation the two men broke a hole in the roof and climbed out on to the tiles. Three or tour professional pugilism in the crowd , at once clambered on to the rookrand flourinhing ' iron-thud sticks, and catching up. tiles, pelted the .nrifortun•te refuge.. Hoping yet to make their escape by flight, they •ran slang the roofs of some twenty houses, and then leaped to the ground. but before they °mild get farther they were surrounded and mercilessly battered with hoe handles, iron-pointed. carrying poles, atones, and anything that come to liand. A friendly bystander. hoping to divert ettention, and possibly even yet rescue the pour fellows alive, called out, •• Why do you go on heating dead men I" For a moment the ruse was suewoof ul ; but at that moment one of the victims showed that life was not quite eztinct by moving slightly. Thin was the signal for anu.her savage attack, which did not cease till ll chance of life i, remaining was gone. Then t X clothes were tom from them, and their 11? naked and wounded, were left exposed toes mer sun. A moment more, and the borne arising from the looted house told that the mom had done. their work only too well. • The foreigners were i murdered, and the bonne that had beeu rented by, them was burnt douse. 1 No Hunan.s seem to hive been concerned in , thie riot. The instigator war apparently one Li, the leading man of It elan resident some tee miles from Suna-Pu. The IMIII bows a bad character, exerts considerable influence in Mow neighbourhood, and is possessed by a very frenzy of anti-foreign rage. It only remains to be said that Messrs. Wilt. liclm and Jutiailisen were very highly respected • and that Wikhohn especially, berm his calm; courage, linguistic ability, high education, . fine presence, and pleasant beering, seemed ' cut out to win his way among any people. On Sunday, July 9, their bodies were taken to Hankuw, end, post mortem examination wee held by Drs. Begs end Morro. The bodiso were in a hortible some, the bones of the face and the , forehead either missing entirely or utterly palworried. One of them was mutilated. But for , the gold stopping in the tooth of Wildialm. and a I vulcanite plate in the mouth of Johanssen, the 1 bodies could not hens been identified. There was 'everything to show than they were not nuly bat-1 terred to death, but that after death a refinement of otiagery wee exerobied upon their corpses. They were delivered to the European authorities lin coffins and shiouds eueh as beggars would be I buried in in aqy pant of China. The funeral took place the same evening at the Hankow Cemetery ; it was conducted partly in Swedish,partiy in Engilith. Consuls, merchants, and gunboat men were I present as well no noinsioneries. A more pathetic 1 earths was never witnessed. A commnn sorrow lead sense of nommen danger drew all together— Hessians and oktnerioans,British andScendinavians, ,• Danes and Germans, end Chinese Christians. II The Chinese authorities, writes a Hankow one' respondent, ave treating the whole matter in a, 'very cavalier manner, insomuch as the victims are; Swedes, and the Swedish Government have no, gunboats in Chinese waters. But no know full well til•t if these murders are allbwod to pave none of no will be safe. In one respect we are suffering from the Mourning of the Liberal Goss., ment. While Lori Salisbury WY at the head of affairs our Illte COUslli, Mr: C. Gardner, C.M.G., wan supported in maintaining • firm front towards the Chinese officials, and by his taut and firmness in dealing with them he saved Hankow from the min that held l Ichang in 189 L Hardly, however, had Load Rosehery taken the reins, thau7appitrently—listaning to Chinese representations, he removed Mr. Osmium frown Hankow, and filled his place by a young Vice-Consul, Mo. Fitzgibbon, who, though no able num in the naturs of things, cannot have the influence of an older man, with lull consular dignity. The Chinese officials understand a move of this sort well, and are only too ready to take advs.ntage of it.