MURDER OF MISSIONARIE

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1685, 28 February 1906, Page 2

MURDER OF MISSIONARIE

OUTBREAK IN CHINA,

TEN PEOPLE KILLED

By telegraph, Press Ass’n, Copyright

Received 9.24 p.m,, Feb. 27,

Pi kin, Feb. 27

A desputo relating lo compensation oocurrid at Nanchsng betworn officials ;aud Jesu'ts, and lei lo an anti-missionary outbreak. Six Fronch Jesuits and four Protestant?, namoly King-ahum his wife aud family, apparently belonging to the American mis-ion, Weio hided. Chinese ltoop3 protected the refugees, including fourteen Americans, proceeding to K'nkiang. An American gunboat has boen sent from Nanking.

DIFFERENT VERSIONS AS TO

CAUSE OF MASSACRE,

By lelegrapli. Press Ass’n, Copyright Received 11.44 p.m., Feb. 27. Ptkin, Feb. 27. According to Catholics in Nanchang when tho priests invited tho Magistrate to a banquet where they cnitavored to obtain his signaiure to a promise of .a large indemnity in connection with a long, standing ditpute, be became indignant aud committ-d euicide. Tho Chinese version is that the priests attacked and killed him. The mob then perpetrated the ma-sacre and destroyed all tun mission buildings, except the China iul-nd mission. Tho Dowager Court, on learning of the murders, iy in a state of collapse. Later advices from Pekin state that ths outbreak occurred in the palace. Yuanshikai is sending troops.