Chinese Murders.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3618, 1 March 1906, Page 3

Chinese Murders.

AN ANTI-:.! CSSIONARY OUTBREAK.

I’i.Kix, Feb. 27. A dispute relating to compensation for the destruction of missionary buildings and property occurred at Nanchang between officials and Jesuits, and led to an anti-missionary outbreak. Six French Jesuit;; anc | f our Protestants —namely’ Mr Kingsham, his wife, and two children —apparently belonging to an American mission, were killed. Chinese troops protected refugees, including fourteen Americans, who are now proceeding to Kinkiang. An American gunboat has been sent from Nanking. According to Catholics at Nanehang, the priests invited a Magistrate to a banquet, where they endeavoured to obtain his signature to a promise of a large indemnity iu connection with a long-standing dispute. The Magistrate became indignant, and committed suicide.

The Chinese version of the affair is that the priests attacked the Magistrate and killed him, whereupon the mob perpetrated the massacre of missionaries and destroyed all the mission buildings except those of the China Inland Mission.

The Empress Dowager and the Court, on learning of the murders, were in a state of collapse.

Latest advices from Pekin state that an outbreak has occurred at the palace. Yuan-shi-kai, Com-mancler-in-Chief, is sending troops.