MASSACRE OF CHRISTIANS. Many Foreigners Brutally Murdered by the Chinese.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 175, 23 October 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

MASSACRE OF CHRISTIANS. Many Foreigners Brutally Murdered by the Chinese.

Shanghai, September 1.- Advices from Chtng Too Foo, the chief otty of the province of Seohuen, state that the natives of the eastern part of that province and those of North Cochin China h&ve.rlsen against the Christians, and are massacring > them and destroyng their property. Tbje aotlve,- persecution is attributed to the imprudence* aU English and • American" , missionary*. iln Cochin China alone,ftfcy Christians 'have been killed and , their houses burned and their farms destroyed, in Seohuen a general massacre of the Christians it reported to be In progress, and they are killed wherever tound. It Is said that whole villages occupied by Christiana have been destroyed, and that *U the lands occupied by profesßors of that faith are being devastated. The Apostolio Vicar's lesWence in Sechuen ha? been burned to the ground, and not a piece of furniture, nor book, nor paper, was saved. The for- - eif?n Consult] ba* e'y e c coped from Seohuen with -their llvet. No eiforta have been mnde up, to the latest reports to quell the'disorder. aud so far aa is now known, it con tinuesun suppressed!