The Sun. — 1859-08-03 (London, England)

TILE MASSACRE OF EUROPEANS IN  BORNEO.  The China Telegraph contains the following account of the massacre at Banjermassing, on the south coast of Borneo, briefly mentioned in a telegram on Saturday :  " It appears that for some time past great discontent existed among the natives at the election of the new Sultan, who was not the lineal descendant of their late ruler, but had been adopted by him as a son, and a conspiracy was formed to depose him, unknown to the Dutch Resident, Count Bentheim Fecklenburg Rheda. At the head of the conspiracy was a certain Aling, a native of Muning, who aspired to the sovereignty of Banjermassing, calling himself in his proclamations by the style and title of Radja Kuning. On the breaking out of the conspiracy, a general massacre of the Europeans was to take place. The flag of the conspirators was unfurled on May 1, and the European workmen employed in the coal mines of Julia Hermina, belonging to a joint-stock company, and situated near Kalangan, were suddenly attacked, overpowered, and brutally murdered, with the exception of two or three women, who managed to con, ceal themselves with their children. An attack was then made on the establishment at Rangeran, but the assailants had to draw off with some loss, having met with a very warm reception. In other parts of the island the massacre of the Europeans was general and simultaneous. Amongst the unfortunate victims of this brutal and wholesale murder are five German missionaries (Messrs. Hammer, Rott, Wiegand, Kind, and Hofmeister), with their wives and children. The total number of Europeans murdered and missing is between 70 and 80. Most providentially, Col. Andreson had arrived a few days previously (April 28) with a detachment of 150 men of the 9th battalion, to relieve Count Bentheim of the civil government as resident, and to take the military command of the station. This probably preserved Tatus, the chief town of Banjermassing, from a similar horrible fate ; but a party of 50 'men, sent for the protection of Pan geran, were intercepted by a strong band of rebels, and obliged to return. Orders were immediately after despatched by the resident to send over the other five companies of the 9th battalion, some artillery, and half a company of Sappers, by the Dutch war-steamers Montrado and Ardjuno, to Banjermassing, as a reinforcement and protection. Later accounts had been received from Pangeran, stating that the little band of Europeans shauntguepratnh' ere were defending themselves most heroically, and had successfully withstood and driven back the assailants ten different times. Great complaints had been made against the government, or at least against the resident, for not affording the workmen of the coal mining company the protection promised by their charter, and the Governor-General had ordered an official investigation to be made with a view of ascertaining whether these charges had any foundation. The following also were among the victims of this cold-blooded outrage :—Mr. Wijnmalen and family (except the three youngest children), Mr. and Mrs. Motley and child (English), Dr. Hinzenger, Messrs. Van Hercken, Eisenger, and Brood,