UNREST IN CHINA.
■j A SIISSIOXARY OUTBREAK. S TEN PERSONS SIURDEREDv ■\ —*- }.■:. I United Press" Association—Per Electric •\ Telegraph—Copyright. ! 1 Received 9.24 p.m:, February 27tii. • 1, PEKIN, Februaiy' 27. ->-A- dispute -relating compensation occurred at Nanchang between the" officials and Jesuits, and Jed to an anti-missionary outbreak.
Six French and four Protestants, namely, Sir Kihgsham, his wife and familv, apparently belonging to the American Slis siou, weie killed. •
Chinese troops protected the .refugees, including fourteen Americans, who. 3te°prbceedingi to Kiukiang. * . . An American gimboat has been sent :nm Nanking.
ACCOUNTS. THE DOWAGER AND COURT : ■\ COLLAPSE. ';R"fceiv6d 11144 p.m.. February 27Uu ■ -.'■■' ■-'; -.■;■;■-. PEKING. Febiuary..27t'i.'j Accdt'diugt*-the.reports, by-.the' Catholib at Nanchang. the priests "were invited by the " "Slaftistrate"to a banquet, where they endeavoured to obtain his signature to a prmnise of a large indemnity in connection with a loag-standing dispute, lie was indiguanf ahdi commitred snieide. • >" • The Chinci-e veision is that the prints attacked the Slagistrate and killed * him: the mob then periieirated the-.massane ;\mi destroyed all (he mission buildings except the Chinese Inl-md Mission. '•. The Dowagei and Coin t, on lemdng'of the nnudeis. were in a state of collan-e. "! Later advices from Pekin stute tliat the outbreak occurred at the palace, and that Yunnshikai is sending tioojm :
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Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 12911, 28 February 1906, Page 5
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