CHINA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7975, 28 February 1906, Page 5

CHINA.

ANTI-MISSIONARY OUTBREAK.

Received February 27, 9.14 p.m. , PEKIN, February 27.

A dispute relating to compensation ocoured at Nauchang between the officials and the Jesuits, and led to an anti-missionary outbreak. Six French Jesuits and four Protestants, namely, Kingshan, his wife and family, apparently belonging to the American mission, were killed. The Chinese troops protected the refugees, inuluding fourteen Americans, who were proceeding to Kinkiang. ' An American gun boat has been sent from Nanking.

FURTHER PARTICULARS,

THE DOWAGER AND COURT IN A STATE OF COLLAPSE;

Received February 27. 11.44 p.m. PEKJN, February 27'

According to the Catholics at Nanchang, when the priests invited a magistrate to a banquet where they endeavoured to obtain his signature to a promise of a large indemnity in connection with a longstanding dispute he became indignant and suicided. The Chinese version of the affair is that the priests attacked and killed the magistrate. The mob then perpetrated the massacre,, and destroyed all the mission buildings except the China Inland Mission station.

The Dowager and Court, learning of the murders, are in a state of collapse. Later advices from Pekic state that the outbreak occurred at the Palace in Nanchang. Viceroy Yuan-Shih-Kai is sending troops to the scene of the distrurbance.