HORRIBLE MASSACRE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1292, 20 January 1885, Page 3

HORRIBLE MASSACRE.

A correspondent, of the Morning Post at Mamlalay sends account of a horrib'e massacre of prisoners which ho witnessed on Sunday, September 21. Jle says : " Tie guards placed in charge of the principal prison?, which are constrooie I of bamboo, ser, lire to oris of lh<? side?, of the edifice, and having assured themselves that the fkmes were beginning 'o invo.de the parts •.vliicli served as shelter to the wretched prisoner?, opened the pates, in front of which there had been drawn up a good number of soldiers armed with guns and swords. Then they threw themselves like wild beasts upon those who, to escape being burnt alive, rushed out of the gates. The massacre lasted all night, in the presence of the highest functionaries of the town, who, with cries and gesticulations excited the assassins against their passive victims. The number killed exceeded 200 and among them wore some relations of Prince Yung Tan, who is at present living in C ilcntta. The day after the massacre the bodies, mutilated in a manner too horrible to describe, were lying heaped about on carts and in the streets of the town. For some months past, the prisons here and elsewhere hud been crowded with brigands and political prisoner?. A revolt -.vas feared, and the governor could find no better expedient to avoid it than to give proof of his determined ferocity by ordering the massacre of all prisoners without distinction of sex, age, or the cause of imprisonment."