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Show BOYCOTT MAY HAVE LED TO MASSACRE Missionaries in Part of China From Which Emigrants Come. NEW YORK No. . : -The Presbyterian Presby-terian board of foreign missions today received a cableKram from Canton Chins, telling of the murder of ile American missionaries at the Presbyterian Presby-terian station at Lienchow, news of which was received In a dispatch to the Associated Press from Hongkong yester-du yester-du The t.ablegram to the board reads us follows: Attacked the Station. Lienchow station bus been attacked. Mrs. Machle, Alme t.Mri Mai tile's daughter), Mr. Penle. Mrs. Peale Chestnut Chest-nut killed Dr. Machle and Patterson safe. Buildings destroyed " The Chestnut referred to is Dr. Kleanoi i Ihestnut. No motive which might have led the Chinese to murder the American missionaries mis-sionaries Is known by the Presbyterian board of foreign missions here. Rev Dr. Arthur J. Brown, secretary of tlie board, said today: Motive Is a Mystery. Letters from the field during the present pres-ent year have nol Indicated any hostility hos-tility or cause for alarm The outbreak out-break of Violence that has now in i urred can hardly have been anticipated One Of the missionaries who was killed. Dr. Dleanor Chestnut was a phsiiHn who Ii,- devoted herself for years to ministering minister-ing to the sick and Injured, and she was beloved by multitudes who cared nothing for Christianity. Of the others one was the wife and another the daughter daugh-ter of a physician, Dr. C. 1" Mschle, and the other two. the Rev and Mrs John Rogers Peale. were new missionaries, mis-sionaries, who left this country August 16, and had been in Lienchow only a few dayS, It therefore appears probable that the attack was made by some mob which had gathered for another purpose arid which gave lawless characters an opportunity oppor-tunity for plunder and bloodshed. Home of Emigrants. It should be addd, however, that nearly all the Chinese In I lie Cnited States hae conn- from the province of Kwang Tung, in which lienchow Is situated, and reports of their treatment here have greatly exasperated many of thc people. The letters of the missionaries, mission-aries, however, havo not indicated ai Interference with their work or any dis-posltion dis-posltion on the part of the people to molest mo-lest them i nder these circumstances It appears that the attack was made by some among that teeming population who did not personally know of the character of work of the missionaries |