The Warwickshire Herald. — 1893-10-05 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

CHINA. The Foreign Ministers at Pekin, acting in concert, forwarded on the 3rd inst a joint Note to the Tsung-li Yemen, or Chinese Office for Foreign Affairs, reciting the facts connect, d with the recent massacre of the Swedish missionaries Wikholm and Johansson, at Sungpu, in 111,0 eh, and demanding the exemplary punishment of all the officials, high and low, who, by their culpable negligence, have permitted this atrocious crime to be committed. They demand also the just and severe punishment of the ringleaders of the mob, and of those who organised it, though they did not actively participate in it. What the result of the Ministers' demand may be upon the Chinese high officials (says tne Standard Shanghai corn,spondent) we have yet to learn, but from our former experiences we can very easily imagine what its tone will be— apologetic, evasive, and contrite, laying all the blame upon the machinations of the enemies of the Government and bad men, whom it will endeavour to seek and punish, while everyone knows that it is the Government agents and the apostles of "sweetness and light " (according to Chinese ideas), the literati, who arranged and carried nut the massacre. Meanwhile the farce of an inquiry into the murrlers is being conducted by the Viceroy's deputy at Sungpu; and, strangely enough, it is to the friends of the murdered missionaries, the landlord who let them their dwelling, the middleman, a teacher, and their domePtic servants,that theklandarins are paying most attention. To the Chinese officials these men are the most guilty of all, and they must be made to suffer, for if they had not befriended the "foreign devils by letting them places to diell in or by serving them, they would not have been murdered, for they could not have remained at Sungpu! The Viceroy's Deputy and the Macheng Magistrate accordingly sent a despatch to the Governor of the Province on the 12th inst., saying that it was "necessary, in the interests of justice," that these six poor men should be arrest. d; but as they had taken refuge with the Swedish miroionaries in the foreign part of Hankow, the native officials could not get at them except through the Swedish Consul. The matter was therefore referred to ConsulGeneral Bock at Shanghai, who promptly telegraphed to the Swedish Consul at flankow to give up the men at once. This mission, supported by the entire foreign community, n fused to do, fearing that their humble Chinese friends would be subjected to the tortures which form so prominent a part in Chinese judicial inquiries of this kind. Though the mandarins professed only to want these six men as witnesses, their real design is to get hold of them to show the natives how powerless the foreigners are to protect friendly Chinese who may come under the official ban by servinv,, in any capacity, the unwelcome over-seas men. So the Mission refused to give them up for many days, till the Chinese authorities gave an undertaking that the men would not be tortured. in the face of this, coupled with Mr. Sock's orders, there was nothing for it but to 51.11 render them to the tender mercies of the native Cl' ii'.  During a re. k I.mic storm in India a boat containing (six artillerymen, stationed at Fort Allalmbed, and two natives capsised. Three of the Englishmen and the natives were drowned. The survivors clung on to the craft and were carried eight miles down the river, when they got rid of their clothes and swam ashore, walking into the fort perfectly nude long after all hope of their safety had been abandoned.  The English engine Empress, now on exhibition at Chicago, will race the famous engine No. 999 of the New York Central Railway Company ten miles for I,ooodol. puree. It is thought that possibly one of the "flyers " among the Pennsylvania Central's engines may compete. -  The African steamer Benguela has brought from Old Calabar to Liverpool a young African prince, by name Eyo 11. The youth, who is not quite 14, W&5 in a state of destitution at 01.1 Calabar, and wrote to Mr. Alfred Jones, of Liverpool, asking to be brought to Liverpool to be educated, so that he might return to Africa and be able to teach his Countrymen. His request was granted. The boy's father was a great slave owner. hut when he died, as the boy was then very i his uncle took the slaves and esst the itode ft.  , The Lydd fishermen on Saturday captured a shark nearly nine feet in length. A large quantity of netting was destroyed. The Queen has granted to the daughters of the late Mr. Weiland, for many years her chief coachman, the use of the cottage and grounds of Bushey House, as a residence during their lifetime. A discharged soldier, named Wilson, committed suicide by cutting his throat in • cell at Armley Prison, Leeds, on Saturday. Be had been nommitted for trial for sending a threatening letter to a solicitor.