ATROCITIES IN CHINA

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 52, 25 November 1926, Page 13

ATROCITIES IN CHINA

LARGELY IMAGINATIVE In regard to the contradiction of much that was cabled in September of atrocities in China, in which it was alleged that the missionaries were shockingly treated. Captain Blackburne, the local secretary for the China Inland Mission, says' that the station said io have been destroyed was She-ki-Chen, in the Honan province. Subsequent letters show that the atrocities alleged to have been committed were largely imaginative. Captain Blackburne further states that General Feng Yu Hsiang, the well-known Christian General, is at present Militarv Governor of Kansu, the most north-western province of China, bordering on Mongolia.

“All the China Inland Mission missionaries I know,” said Captain Blackburne, “have the highest regard for General Feng (pronounced Fong) as a genuine Christian, which has been proved over a long series of years. He is, however, no lover of Great Britain, as he knows well' how his country has suffered, and is suffering terribly through our wrong-doing in connection with the opium traffic, and he also feels strongly about the foreign settlements in many of the large treatv ports. It is known that he has lately been to Russia, and has returned, but Christian missionaries and others who have been with him quite lately tell us that the Bolshevists hate him because he- is a Christian, and General Feng recognises that they are God’s enemies.”