OUTBREAK IN CHINA.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 4, 30 September 1907, Page 5

OUTBREAK IN CHINA.

BOXERS Kill AN ITAIIAN PRIEST. TAXATION RIOTS. A HUNDRED PERSONS KILLED. By Telegraph—Association—Copyright. (Received September 2S), 4.22 p.m.) Pekitl, September 28. Owing to the establishment of t likin station at Kaisow, imposing extra taxation, incendiaries set firetchouses, boats, and pontoons at Wuchow. A hundred lives wero lost, damago to property is estimated at ;■ quarter of a million dollars. Ivero;nne depots were also blown up. Looting is proceeding in the city The river gunboat Robin is guard.'!); the British Consulate. Boxers at Nan-kang-hsicn, in .Iv angsi Province, murdered an Italia; priest and several converts in ■ Tillage. A Lazarist mission station at-Kuu oliau-fu was burned. Tho Lazarist' ilod to Kiang-fu. Tho Protestant missionaries :i>. Kau-eliau-fu aro safe.

The Lnzarists, or Lazarites, are mem bers of the Congregation of the Mission, a religious order in the Roniai. Catholic Church, founded by St. Yincent de Paul in IG'-U, and so called from tho priory of St. .Lazare, near Paris, which was given to the society in 1632. Tho primary, object was to dispense religious comfort and instruction •;imong tho poor of the .rural districts of France, and to establish seminaries, but its membors, officially called pricstr ii the mission, now have housrf in most • parts of the work'.. Likin is a tax imposed on merchdlidise in course of transportation, payable n< .'.ppointed barriers, which by article, t the Commercial Treaty betweer 'Ireat Britain and China, signal in • September, 1902, will be abolisb'ci! ,1-hen ull the Powers having treaties ■ ivith China assent to a scheme of surtaxing imports and exports in lieu ot likin. Wu-ehow, now given up to riol and loot, is a Chinese treaty port on . the 3i-kiang, in ICwang-si, 180 miles west of Canr.cn.