OUTRAGES IN CHINA.
A TOWN SET ON FIRE
ITALIAN PRIEST MURDERED
United Press Association —Copyright (Received Sept. 29, 4.22 J>.111.) PEKIN, Sept. 28. Owing to the established tikin station at Kaisow imposing extra taxation, incendiaries set fire to houses, boats, and pontoons at Wushow. A hundred lives were lost. The damage will probably be a quarter of a million dollars. The kerosene depot was also blown up. Looting is proceeding in tho city. The river gunboat Robin is guarding the British ConBoxers at Nankaughsun, Kiangsi province, murdered an Italian pri est and several converts in tho village of Towooli. Tho Lagarist mission station at Kauchaufu was burnt. The Lagarists fled to Kiangfu. -The Protestant missionaries at Kauchaufu are safe.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2198, 30 September 1907, Page 2
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119OUTRAGES IN CHINA. Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2198, 30 September 1907, Page 2
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