CHINA AND THE EAST. MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN KILLED. SECRET SOCIETY RIOTS.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 396, 24 August 1889, Page 3

CHINA AND THE EAST. MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN KILLED. SECRET SOCIETY RIOTS.

News brought by the Catterfchun, which arrived at Thursday Island from Hongkong last week, states that a serious disturbance has taken place at Fakion. Twelve thousand armed rebels attacked the villages of Nakow and Chunglok, and 400 men, women and children were slaughtered, property destroyed and plunder taken. Three ''thousand, "troops 'hra^e started to quell the rebellion. The latest nows;, spates that • fche rebels left before the troops reached the scene. The slaughter was caused through a few countrymen being killed at Kulkeen last year. The students and police at Hankow came into collision, and the gunboat Merlin has left to protect the residents. The Chinese riots at Bangkok have been quelled, 900 prisoners tiding taken. A woman named Melo, one ' of the captured secret society chiefs, had groat influence in the' riots. She was formorly a Christian. The riots were caused by the secret societies. The estimated loss is 20 killed and 150 wounded. Tho 'tigers round Foochow aro very troublesome, eight natives having been car'ribd off/ ' The rice market at Foochow is very high, through the small ciops. The disease known as beri-bex*i is on the increase amongst the .water police. It is proved \;ery infectious, particularly amongst the men on water duty. The Chineso namo 'is^haphi. N The disease is paused b,y^ jbh'c, dampness rising 'up from the wafcej. ;' | ; - " LiAhchin J , a notorious pirate nearKwongpoa, succeeds' in eluding tho military authorities. Trading crafts are heavily blackmailed by him, they lefusing'to give up their cargoes until captured. „ The silk crops are very poor. (