CHINESE ATROCITIES.

Te Aroha News, Volume XII, Issue 1768, 7 September 1895, Page 2

CHINESE ATROCITIES.

DETAILS OF THE ATTACK--'Brisbane, September 4. News from China gives details of the Kuchpi g massacre. One ox the survivors, the Rev Mr Phillips, states lhat he found Mr ‘Stewart’s daughter, Mildred, with a serious wound ou her knee, and after dressing it he attended to Herbert, her brother, who-had been stabbed all over the body He found Miss Cjdrington in a fearful condition, and after staunching the bleeding went to the assistance of the others. The rev. geutlomen says he discovered thebodies of Miss T Saunders, Mi s Stewart, and Messrs Gordon and Marshall. The latter had been awfully cut about the head, which was almost severed from the body. Miss Newc ;mho’s body was at tho foot of a hill in front of the-house, where it had evidently boon thrown. He also learnt from Miss Codringi:oit, that five ladies attached to th - Tfonana mission, who lived in the lower of two houses which formed the Kucheng sanatorium, after a futile attempt to escape were surrounded by the Vegetarians. The ladies? pleaded foy their lives, and some, of the men seemed touched by their pleadings, and asked their fello w member to spare their lives, but the leader ordered them to be killed, Had the ladies been able to escape into the brushwoood at the baqk of the house there seems but little doubt their lives would have been saved. - . . When the'attack was made Mr and Mrs Stewart were n«»t dressed. Lena, the Irish nurse, was killed While protecting Mrs Stewart’s infant. The latter was injured in the eye.

Nellie Saunders was knocked down at the nursery door while : giving assistance to the children. We, says Mr Phillips, aftOTwards found the remains of a burnt body and had little doubt it was hers,’ For a long time it was thought the Stewartsbad escaped, but subsequently their ashes Were found among the mins in a bedroom. Dr Gregory states that Miss Marshall’s throat ;was frightfully hacked ab nit. On Miss 8 ewurt ho failed to find a wound, and thinks she died from shock. Miss Gordon received spear wounds in the neck. Topsv Saunders’ death was mused by a spear wound in the n'ght eye, the weapon penetrating the brain. ! Apparently th me had been no attempt at mutilation of the bodies-. N > one in r near bad anyj warning of the danger, and t.h» entire' time occupied in committing the mas - sacre did not exceed 20 minutes.