THE CHINESE ATROCITIES

Thames Advertiser, Volume XXVII, Issue 8198, 10 August 1895, Page 2

THE CHINESE ATROCITIES

(Putss Association.) Shanghai, Augusts. Yesterday the mob attacked the British American Mission House in Fathan, near Canton. The hospital was demolished. Some of the residents fled from the city. A Chinese gunboat has been ordered to proceed there. The vegetarians number 12,000 and are well -armed. They intend to | destroy the whole mission in Guaug Tung province and evict the missionaries. It is reported that an outbreak against Christians has taken place in Chingchaw, Hupeb, Talping, and Antiwerp. ' Two hundred Sikh troops stationed iu Hongkong will escort Mansfield to Kucheng. The attack was organised by officials. At a public moeting resolutions was carried denouncing tho connivance of officials and complaints were made of the inadequate means of the British Government to protect its subjects in the East and demanding that pressure be brought to bear on the Government to stop the outrages. The American Consul in Foochoo reports that he has obtained the names of the leaders of the massacre. August 9. Mabel Hartford an American missionary states that the mob at Kucheng attacked the mission station at 7in tho morning. She herself was nearly speared, but got off with a severe beating. Topsy Saunders, • escaped to Dr. Stewart's house, but was killed outside.

Miss Gordon's head was almost severed from her body.