The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1891-12-05 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

BREACH OF  MASSACRE 6P-CRRISTIANB IN cam. FIENDISH ATROCITIFA  The epochs' correspondent of the Daily Chroeiels at Tientain telegraphs, saying official destiatclie, have rea.;hed there wh full details of the massacre of Christians at Takow. Previous advice*, he 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 timulish cruelty. Coildreti of tender years were seized by the savages, hacked with knives, and then roasted in a huge tire. Worse still befel the nuns attached to the mission. They were subjected to the grossest indignities, and brutally outraged by the fiends, who afterwards brained them with massive clebs. The Belgian priests were cruelly tortured, but met their fate with Christian resignation. In one case heart and tongue were torn from the body and burnea by the savages in their murderous freezy. 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 this district. The foreign diplomatic body at Pukin are simply furious. The whole European colony is boiling over with indignation. News from Mongolia is serious. The rebel forces are reported to be growing larger, and their forward march has continued so far uu' interruptedly. 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 Leao-Yaug.  Advicee received in Paris from Shanghai confirm the report that the rebels in Manchuria have defeated 4,000 Imperial troops, end that they have taken the town of Caoyang and massacred the Christians of King-Chou. The insurgents are now stated to be marching on Pekin, and 6,000 men have been sent against them from Tientsin. Should the troops be defeated, Tientsin and Pekin will be placed in a critical position. A Reuter telegram from Pekin corroborates the above intelligence. It is said there are two revolts, botli on the northern side of the Great Wall of China. The origin of the risings is involved in obscurity. The local Mandarins, after temporising, 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 licence to sack and pillage in respect of the Christians alone. As a consetuence the European Missions and the houses of the native Christians were handed over as a prey to the ferocity of the rebels. The most frightful atrocities were perpet• rated on the unhappy people, who, after being subjected to every form of torture, were massacred to the number of 300. Of the European and native Christians 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 has dispatched several thousand Imperial troops to the front.