MURDERS BY CHINESE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 657, 6 November 1909, Page 5

MURDERS BY CHINESE.

.... ~- , —^.^—»_,____■. "'. FOUR EXECUTIONS. (By, Telegraph,—Press Assoclatlon.-Oopyrlght.) Honfl-Konß,:November 4.; Of the Chinese implicated in the murder of the German travellers Schmitz and Brunhuber in May last, four:bavo been executodand four have been sentenced to long.tprins of imprisonment. . : -..;.' -' : ■.■■-;■;■-;'/''.';'. •;-.'■■'. '-, TWO RECENT MURDERS IN CHINA. Telegrams sent in May from Roman Catholid missionaries in Yun-nan reported.the murder of two> German travellers- from. Cologne," Dr. Brunhuber and Dr. Schmitz, two days' journey from Wei-hsi, a sub-profcctural city in tho Mekong valley on tho north-western border of the province It is believed that they met their death at the hands' of Mosos, a semi-independent indigenous tribe inhabiting tho borderland. Dr. Brunhuber was a correspondent of tho "Berliner Tngeblatt," and was endeavouring to make his way to Tibet on behalf of that journal. While Germany has obtained reparation for this murder, theio is no news that tho Chinese Go\ernraent has jet dono anything in compliance with tho "firm demand" presented by Britain, and supported by tho United States, for reparation for tho murder by Chinese of the uativo Indian 'surveyor, AH, Bazrah, who was attached to a scientific oxpeditaon headed by a wealthy American named Clark Ali Hawaii was killed on Juno 21 in a dispute with some country peoplo near Lan-ohau, the capital of Kan-su province. It was subsequently reported that the Viceroy of Kan-su had been dismissed. He assorts that tho mombers of tho expedition, while rescuing another comrade (Mr. Sowerby, an interpreter), attacked the Chinese, killing one and wounding two. Tho fact of tho Chinese being killed is made an argument by China for letting the matter drop, but the British Ambassador persists *