Show KILLING THE CATHOLICS Keports That tIme Chinese Have Organized Or-ganized a Murderous Crusade SAN FRANCISCO April 7The Oceanic arrived yesterday afternoon with Hong Kong dates of March 10th and Yokohama I 21st The Shanghai Mercury says the Viceroy of Yunan and Kwochong provinces vinces has issued a decree commanding command-ing the destruction of all Roman Catholic convents The decree also orders all Roman Catholic converts and all foreigners foreign-ers to be killed Reports had reached shanghai that several Roman Catholic settlements had already been destroyed and several hundred converts killed The village of Kingapung two days journey from Tali had been destroyed and the converts and two priests killed The only reason assigned by the Chinese Viceroy for the massacre is that the Roman Catholics were going to revolt against the Chinese government Viceroy Lehung Chang has appointed General Lehmann a Prussian officer to the chiet command of the Chinese artillery A fire at Tokio March 19th destroyed twelve hundred buildings Over a thou sand families wore rendered homeless |