THE SINKAT GABBISON DESTROYED.
TEBBIBLE MASSACRE OF CHRISTIANS. MR BRADLAUGH IN THE HOUSE. bkutbb's telbgbams. Hong Kono, February 12. Anti -Christian riots have occured in China. Two hundred Christians were massacred, and a mission station was totally destroyed during tha riots. London, February 12. The wool market is quiet. The new arrivals to date for next series of auctions now amount to 310,000 bales. In the house of commons yesterday, Sir Stafford Nort : cote moved that Mr Bradlaugh be excluded from the House and from the precincts ef the palace, and the motion was adop'.ed by a large majority. Mr Bradlaugh was present during the debate, and voted with the minority. Caibo, February 12. A telegram is to hand this afternoon from Souikim, announcing that Sinkat, the town which has been besieged by the rebels for several weeks past has fallen. The governor (Tewfik Bey), ordered all the forts to le exploded and the guns spiked, and, when this work had beea completed yesterday, he made a sally from the place with his garrison, numbering six hundred men. I hey were met outside the town by an overwhelming force. The rebels showed no mercy, and massacred the whole of their victims. The latter were rod ueed to starvation before they sallied from Sinkat.
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Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 18, 14 February 1884, Page 2
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