The Chinese Massacres.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 58, 5 September 1895, Page 2

The Chinese Massacres.

FURTHER DETAILS OF THE OUTIJAGES. PLUCKY CONDUCT OF A GIRL. (Per Press Association.) Sidney, This Day. Further particulars of the Kucheug massacre recount the pluoky couduct on the part of Stewart's little girl, Kathleen. It appears the day of the massacre ■was the birthday of Herbert, one of Stewart's children, and the three eldest went away to the hills early ia the morning, before the parents had risen, to gather wild flowers. While walking near the place where the flowers were they heard a noise of horns and drums, and, thinking it was from a procession, the children ran to see it go by. On their meeting the crowd, one of men seized Kathleen by the hair and beat her. Her companions ran away screaming. Eventually Kathleen escaped and ran home. They told their father, who was then up, of what had happened, and he immediately went to Mrs Stewart's room. This was the last seen of him. Kathleen hid under the bed, and Mildred was unable to do so but lay upon it. At that moment the supposed procession, which followed the children very rapidly, entered} the house and immediately attacked Mildred, who was wounded. Kathleen was not discovered. On finding tho house fired, Kathleen dragged Mildred off the bed and took her outside. She then went to the nursery and pulled the baby from under the body of the dead nurse. She next carried out in safety, one by one, her two wounded brothers, carrying each of the children a short distance in turn. Later on she started for Miss Hartford's, and meeting a native half way she induced him, after some trouble, to help her to get her wounded brothers and sisters to Miss Hartford's residence.