LATE TELEGRAMS.
LATEST EUROPEANS NEWS. RUSSIA AND CHINA. MASSACRE OF CHRISTIANS. TERRIBLE EARTHQUAKES. I GREAT LOSS OF LIFK. • Received September 2, 2.30 p.m. Oonstantinuplk, September 1. The Russian Consul at Sofia, who is believed to have been implicated in the arreat and removal of Prince Alexander, has been recalled by his Government. Hong Koxg September 1. News to hand from Corea that fearing the Russians, the Chinese ironclads recently anchored off the coast and landed a party of soldiors disguised. On the latter reaching the shore they were attacked by a riotous mob of Coreans and compelled to return. Reports have reached here of a terrible massacre of Christians in North Chochin China and in the Chinese province Sech. A number of villages inhabited by Christians are reported to have been burned to tbe ground. A very severe shock of earthquake has been felt along the eastern seabeard, and in Alabana and this city. The shock was felt strongest at Augusta snd Savanah, iv Georgia and at Charleston. At these towns several houses fell and sixty persons have been killed.
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Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 35, 2 September 1886, Page 3
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180LATE TELEGRAMS. Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 35, 2 September 1886, Page 3
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