Foreign.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 3 December 1891, Page 2

Foreign.

Advices received at Shanghai state that the Mancharian rebels are ad vancing from Fientsin, and that in the event of defeat of Government troops Pekin will be in a critical condition. Tne rebels, before capturing Chaoyong, defeated a force of 4000 regulars, leaving 700 of them dead on the field. Details of the massacre at the Taku Missions are to hand. They show that the Chinese roasted the children alive after having mutilated them, and outraged and then killed the nuns by dashing their brains out. Their hearts and tongues were torn from the priests, and their bodies afterwards burnt, The rioters have been banquetted by a prominent mandarin. The report that Turkey has ceded Cape Scheik to France is officially denied. The local Mandarins are reported to have entered into negotiations with the rebels to spare the people on condition they had free license to sack and pillage Christians and Europeans. All the native Christians were massacred at the Taku forts. The Government declared it was impossible to protect the mission at Thun Hoa. The origin of the Chinese revolts is obscure. The first outbreak took place in a town called Cinchow in the north-east. The garrisons in Shanghai and Kivan are marching against the rebels. Later details of the massacre at Taku show that 300 persons were butchered, nofc a single individual connected with the Missions escaping. The Imperial Government is alarmed at the magnitude of the rising, and a strong army, well officered, has been despatched to surround the rebels. The Protestant missionaries have abandoned the Mission Station at Thun Hoa. The Imperial Government is taking energetic steps to put down the revolt. An official telegram received at Hong Kong states that the rebels are 300 miles from Pekin, and that there are 5000 Christians in Eastern Mongolia who require protection. The press are unanimous that decisive and concerted action should be taken to afford protection to the Missions and foreigners.