Show ALL HAS NOT YET BEEN TOLD AH Missionary Stations in Western West-ern China Looted CHARGES MADE BY THE MOB FOREIGN BARBARIANS STOLE SMALL CHINESE CHILDREN IiscLU1cN Appealed to the Magistrate Magis-trate But Ho Was Powerless to Aid Them Friendly Native Aid the Missionaries to Etfcnjie and Thus a Wholesale Massacre Was Prevented I NEW YORK Sept 1 Reports of the Atchison missionaries in China have come from members of Methodist Baptist Missionary union to the Baptist Bap-tist Missionary Gazette which show that uprisings were more general than has been told toefore In the last week of May and the first of June all the missicnay stations in western China were looted by mobs and 146 missionaries mission-aries men women and children were driven away escaping with only their lives In the province of Sechuan the largest inthe empire there were many small stations scattered over the valley val-ley of the Upper Yang Tse Kiang1 river Most of the missionaries mis-sionaries had gone to the field in the past five years While the authorities seem to have tried in some instances to protect the missions the only service they were able to render was to help them to escape The missionaries mis-sionaries fled hundreds of miles down the river traveling on rafts and in house boats carrying as much as a chanty of clothing and reaching places of safety only after two weeks of hardships The Charges Made i In Cheng Tu the capitol of the provInce prov-ince of Szechuan a placard was posted on the 28th of May asserting that the foreign barbarians were hiring evil characters to steal small children from them The next day a mob of several thousand tore down the Canadian Methodist mission and the m property of the two Protestart occur oc-cur ants an < 3 the Catholic building 1hf < missionaries appealed to the magistrate mag-istrate of the city but he told theni he was powerless to help them With I the aid of some friendly natives they effected their escape Then the cry went up The time has come to turn all the missionaries out of Szechuan A part of the mob divided into smaller parties and took the various roads out of town en route for the other mis ion centers In all cities the most inflammatory in-flammatory placards were posted on the walls Riots Immediately Followed The Baptist missionaries believe the riots were incited bjr members of the official force They kept in the background back-ground however and to appearances the students wera at the bottom of thp mischipf They published a placard xing a date for the destruction of the missionary mis-sionary property at Sui Chaua Fwu and for killing the magistrate who was suspected of desiring to protect foreigners In most cases the missionaries while their property was being destroyed de-stroyed left the cities and hid in the neighborhood awaiting an opportunity to escape They had native friends who helped them to procure oat and to put the ladies and children aboard At Sul Chau F Messers Warner and Wellwood and Dr Finch got their valuable val-uable papers and silver out of the tovn and secreted them Here as everywhere the trouble came like a thunder clap out of a clear sky Sundays Pd Sun-days services were well attended quiet ad very impressive and three candidates were baptised by immersion immer-sion On Monday June 3 the city was flooded with placards Terrible Sufferings The largest parts which numbered gixtyfixe were crowded for eleven days in the house boats suferi terribly ter-ribly and but for the fact thal they had money enough to pay the exhor Mtant prices asked for everything would have perished Many stories of individual escapes are told but they are much alike in their main feature |