THE CHINESE REBELS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 3025, 3 December 1891, Page 2

THE CHINESE REBELS.

(l!Y KLKOTUIIi TKLKUH.UMI — COI'VIUCII 1). lIOXOKONU, November 30. L.VTKI' detiiils of thu massacre at Tiiku show that three lmndivd persons were butehenrl ; ml *j, single individual connected with the missions escaping.

Tholocil ni:iudtirius (ire reported to have entere I into negotiations with the reWeis to sp ire the p:->pk>, on condition tliat they had fret! license to sack •ind pillage Christians and Europeans. All the native Christians were massacred at Takti.

The Government h:is declared it is impossible to protect, the mission at Tlnmhon.

The Imperal Government are taking oUL'vgiitic steps to puiduwn theicvolt. They iire alarmed at the magnitude of the rising, and an 'inuy,\voll oiHeciod, liiis boon despatched to surround the rebels. Tin' garrisons in Shanghai and Kion are tmircliing against tin; rebels. Protestant missionaries have abandoned the mission station at Thunlioa. Tlii! origin of the. Chinese revolt is ob-icure. The first outbreak took place in a town called Cinchow, in the north-oast. December 1. An ofttyial telegram received here states that the rebels urn three hundred miles from Pekin, and that there are live thousand Christians in Eastern Mongolia who require protection. The press are unanimous that decisive and concerted action should bo tiiken to afford protection to missions and foreigners.