THE KUCHENG MASSACRE.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 7439, 9 August 1895, Page 2

THE KUCHENG MASSACRE.

[PBB PEESa ABBOCIATIOM— OOPYBIOHT.]

tJHiNOHAi, August 7. The Amerioan Gc-,sul at Fooohow has obtained evidence that the Mandarins were aware that the attack was to be made on the missionaries. Native Christians ere being subjeoted to terrible persecutions, and foreigners are insulted everywhere H.M.B. Linnet has beea ordered to Fooohow

&YDNKTT, August 8. Misa Newcombe, one of the viotims of the massacre at Kucheng, was the niece of a New Zealand schoolmaster of the same name.

Dγ Orr Lee in an interview eaid (he Vegetarians were fearltES and quiet but a desperate ol«8s Hβ did not think the rising bad any poli deal significance. Vegetarians, like priests, have great faith in their religion and live only for it. They leave father and mother, and go away by themselves on the hills and live in feolueion like hermits. They do not oar* what you do with tham but do not like to ccc people turning away from their religion. Neither do they like foreigners, and the more Chinamen become Christians the more do they hate the missionaries, and mora determined to #et rid of them. They hill Chinamen who become Christiana just the same as they do missionaries, and ure always killing them off quietly. A'he Government is not to blame but the Mandarine. They support the Vegetarians because they do not like to see people change their religion. The Vegetarian Society is one the Government dare not interfere with. Quong Tart, the well-known Chinese merchant, eaid he believed the Government ia as friendly disposed towards missionaries as ever. Their non-interference is attributable to the fact that the war has left the troops in a Scattered state, and immediate eubjagation of the Vegetarians is impossible. He confirms the religious character of the society.

[dklaybd cablk ] London, August 6. Further particulars of the Kuohenj? massacre show that the officers and eoldiere, polioo and t-ix gatherers, all vied ia committing horrible atro-jities. Dr. Stewart a month ago asked Misses Saundere and Gordon to leave for the coast, bat they refused, pleidiug thut he would allow them to stay They said they would put their truat in God. aud remain at their duty.

Dr. Stewart's last letters speak of tho noble work the rfaunders wei'd doing. A lady missionary who has returned states that the worK was conducted quietly, and that the missionaries were particularly oare« ful not to give offence.

fiir H. Macartney, Councillor of the Cbinote Legation in London, has given a promise that the Chinese Government will punish the murderers.

[PEB PBHSa ASSOCIATION.] Wellington, Last night. Rev. George * iioll, of the China Inland Mission, who spent 15 years in mission work ia China, and witnessed the Itohang riots some years ago, is at present in Wellington. He is acqaaiated with Kucheng *nd the neighborhood, and ia of opinion that the Society of ' Vegetariane" which is responsible for the outrage is an isolated one He suggeste as a remedy for the treatment to which are subjected the stoppage of the opium truffle and sending more missionary laborers into the country to preich the got-pel, although it would probably mean the sacrifice of further lives. Heatnen Chinese were taught from childhood to hate foreigners, and it waa foe miefeionuries to teach them better In the lust five yuare 481 male and 167 female missionaries have been sent into the oountry, and had done an euormous amount of Chriaiianitiag work.