THE CHINESE ATROCITIIS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1013, 31 July 1891, Page 19

THE CHINESE ATROCITIIS.

By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. CUT THROATS RAMPANT AT WANCHOW. (PRESS association.) Sydney, July 29. News from China shows that tha rioting at Foochow was very serious, and for a time it seemed as if the warships would have to intervene for the protection of life and property. The crews of the British merchantmen were armed in readiness to repel any attack on the shipping. The rioting spreads westwards. At Wanchein, on the A ang-tse-Kiang, people took shelter in some old forts, and at fhe date of the mail leaving, the male inhabitants were preparing to resist an attack. . .. , Several leaders of secret societies have been captured by the authorities and beheaded. Large rewards are offered for others. , , , At Wanchow a few weeks ago, a desperate band of pirates landed, and were speedily swelled to a force of 500 cut throats, who marched through the country committing all sorts of atrocities. They seized a monastery and beheaded four of tha monks, because they refused them permission to cook food. The chief object of the dea. peradoes is the capture of influential people for the sake of ransom. One method of enforcing their demands is by occasionally sending anatomical specimens of captives to their relatives. _ Hong Kong, July 27. > The looting and burning of missions in Ch A Chinese diplomatisti in Europe is alleged to be the author of the riots,