CHINESE' ATROCITIES.

Te Aroha News, Volume XII, Issue 1758, 10 August 1895, Page 2

CHINESE' ATROCITIES.

Shanghai, August 7. The Chinese soldiers sent to protect the missions in Kuclieng broke into bouses and plundered what the vegetarians had left. Sydney, August 8. The Anglican Churches throughout the colony hold a memorial service on Tuesday for the massacred missionaries, V

Miss Newcombe, one of the Kucheng victims was neice of a New Zealand schoolmaster of the samo name.

Wellington/ August 8. The Kev Geo. Niccoll of the China Inland Mission, who spent 15 years in rnission work in China and witnessed the Itchang riots some yearn ago, is at present in Wellington. H l <i "' ' ' ' - jlxv IS ac- „ voU . witn Kucheng and the neighbourhood, and is of opinion that the society of vegetarians which is responsible for the outrage is an isolated one. He suggested as a remedy of the treatment to which the missionaries are subjected the stoppage of the opium traffic and to send more missionary labourers into the country to preach the gospel, although it would probably mean a sacrifice of further lives. The brethern Chinese were taught from childhood to hate foreigners, and it was for missionaries to teach them better.- In the last five years. 481 male and 672 female missionaries had been sent into the country - and had done an enormous amount of Christianising work.