Chinese Cruelty.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 120, 2 April 1891, Page 4

Chinese Cruelty.

— ;•— r* . I A horrible story comes from China, ftoib long ago a Ouindman slew his father, and was condemned to die under what is known ft* the torti r. of Lunchi. The scene was witnessed by a young Englishman, the 'chief engineer of a steamer, and he took a number of photographs, which show __aU_the details of the ghastly scene. -JL'he criminal was first tied up^naked, and a curved iuuision made o.ver.each The chest was next scored with a. sheaf of cuts from sin to 7in long, curving towards the collar bones Next the muscles of the arms and legs below the knee were severed,^tnd the hands and forearms cut off one by one; afterwards the legs shared the eame-fate. The later acts consisted • \n T disembowelling the still living wretch, after^which the coup de grace was given by a stab in the heart, and Jthe head was slashed off, and left to lie_amougst the fragments of what Was f pnce a inaa. Theae photographs ■Ure.now in England, and they show 1 "niore eloqaently than any speech or 'writing could do the .innate 'brutality joJLfchejQiiiuejje character, and the thin „: veneering of civilsation.. with w.hich ' ? jthey conceal the most revolting cruelty.