THE CHINESE ATROCITIES.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XXVII, Issue 8197, 9 August 1895, Page 2

THE CHINESE ATROCITIES.

(Per Phess Association.)

Shanghai, August 7.

The Chinese soldiers scut to pro* tect tho missions in Kucheng broke into houses and plundered what the vegetarians bad left. Sydney, August 8.

The Anglican Churches throughout the colony hold a-meiuorial service on Tuesday for the massacred missionaries.

Miss Newcombcjono of theKucbcng victims was ucice of a New Zealand schoolmaster of tho same name.

[This wiUptoljaMy bo Mr Newcombe, who hail a school in Auckland not long ago.- We fancy lie is teaching in Wanganui no«%]

Wellington, August 8,

Tho Rev. Geo. Niccoll of the China Inland Mission, who spent 15 years in mission work in China and witnessed the Itchang riots some years ago, is at present in Wellington. He is acquainted with Kucheng and tho neighbourhood, aud is of opinion that the society of vegetarians which is responsible for the outrago is an isolated one. He suggested ds a remedy of the treatment to which the missionaries are subjected the stoppage of the opium traffic and to send more missionary labourers mto the country to preach the gospel, although it would probably mean a sacrifice of further lives. The heathen Chinese wero taught from childhood to hate foreigners and it was for missionaries to teach them better. In the Isst five years 481 malo and 672 femalo missionaries had been sent into the country and had done an enormous amount of Christianising work.