THE MENCHAU MURDERS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13048, 13 December 1905, Page 5

THE MENCHAU MURDERS.

25 CHINESE ARRESTED.By Telegraph—Press Association— Pekin, December 11, A Buddhist monk and 24 other Chinese have been arrested fy.v complicity in the recent murder of American missionaries at Lier/ohau- ia China,

Details of tbesa crimes, which \v?v-/> attended with great brutality, were publish'?.! in the HEBAin a tew days ago.

According to Rsuter's special correspon- ] I. cent at Cr.,nton, Dr.Machle, r..f requesting j i , ,o removal of the street theatre, close to I Co hospital at Liencluiu, ou accent of bs j ! joise, incensed the natives, who h', —rue • io- ; leac, u:>d attacked t"•«. hosnits; I'll.. ; ob I ptraleci ; -,\ ■■•.- street v ish ■;.*■ .'Jrcletori" taueri •'• tiicir raei"(ii*l classroom, '.v'cich t.'ioj exhibited ;as a 'p:;*oof of the inhumanity of Hie !• foreigners. , The Chinese, roused to freruy, : made a rush Ui>on and burned the hospital, the | girls'. school, and the residences of | foreigners. The missionaries, Dr. and Mis. Macble. with their ■ ten-year-old daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Pcale, Dr. Eleanor Chestnut, and Miss Peterson took refuse in a cave, but wore pursued and all killed except Dr. Machlo and Miss Peterson, who ohcaped to the Yamen. Dr. Machlo was badly wounded. Another report Rays that Miss Machle i attempted to dissuade soma Chinese from , worshipping idols which they carried, and when they refused she seized some of the idols and declined to restore them to their owners. Thereupon the infuriated processionists surrounded the mission buildings and set them oat fire. Six French priests, who lived in the neighbourhood were not, interfered with by the mob.