Chinese Affairs.
Per Press Association.) Thursday Island, Jan. 81. The mail steamer brings news that the Japanese cruiser Kopei (formerly the Chinese cruiser Kowang Ping) was wrecked near Pescadores Islands during December. Thirty of the crew were drowned. While foreign residents were takiDg part in sports at the American mission station at Icharg on December 18th, a Customs oflicial was accidentally wounded by a bullet from an air gun. The accident caused £?reat commotion among the Chinese. The British Consul and others were stoned and the mission property damaged, while the Church of the Scotland mission station was also threatened. The ladies and children were placed on board steamers for safety and order was not restored till a large, force of blue jackets were landed from the British warship-
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 179, 1 February 1896, Page 2
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129Chinese Affairs. Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 179, 1 February 1896, Page 2
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