| Show Co Coolies Coolies' lies lies' Superstition Great Danger of Foreign Missionaries i in China j Gordon Hall at used In th Boxer uprising as as asa a stronghold to protect wives children of missIonaries It may be valuable in the lie same way Inset is a erg sergeant ant In the Chinese nationalist army Editors Editor's note is the third of a series of three articles b by Rodney Dutcher Washington ton corr con cor- r respondent for N NEL A SerVice and The Telegram giving the background back back- ground of the Chinese crisIs By RODNEY DUTCHER NEA S Service Wr Writer er W WA ASHI INGON JeH Th t-Th e hief ot of Chinese Chinee mobs that Chinese n were S' S ne being killed in fo and hospitals as evidenced recently by riots endangering en- en th the pf of and others is merely Y another outburst based Ott on bId superstitions A hun hundred red years eals eal's British and amI Ft diplomats were vere busy lag InsUring protection for tor foreign m missIonaries in China and for tor converts con con- verts to Christianity Toleration clauses ot of this nature were Insert Insert- d In various tre tes These treatS treatS' clauses were far far- reaching They rhey save gave powers pow pow- ers a virtual protectorate ose o er what whatever ver natives embraced One or more sects of the Christian rElI reli- glon Ion Trouble w s caused b by tire claim calm of converts o be exempted from contributing to the cOst or of national ceremonies ot of a r religious nature and by th the efforts ot of prU to protect the converts Iron Iron-I cupidity cu- cu and Injustice Oh the part of mandarins First the chinese o arid amid the B and he n to oO ChriStian activities Tb n n nC C caine me the mobs bIL In the sixties popular demonstrations demonstrations demon demon- began to break out on the basis ot of a belief that native naU converts convert performed black art rites on children taking their eyes or their souls to use In making medi- medi cine The lower class Chinese were then as now perhaps ready to believe almost anything of this nAture Accustomed to fervent worship of their ancestors they became excited over reports that C were to dese- dese orate orMe the tablets tablet b br theIr th- th era were vere be beAten ten or murdered and destroyed Meanwhile the Chinese government govern jovern- ment WAS complaining against the activitIes that 1 they the were breaking up I. I reI relations a tIO S between rulers an and the people Rumors Bunions became current that children were being for sale to the foundling hospitals of tile the Roman noman Catholic missions The viceroy arranged a public inspection tion at to disprove the these e rumors but the next month June 1810 SImilar stories were spread in n A mob led by agitators rs destroyed dp- dp the French missionary buildings and massacred ten Sisters Sis Sla- tern of Mercy the French consul several other Frenchmen and a pasty paty of Russians mistaken for tor I Sixteen ot of the rioters rioter were condemned condemned con con- to death an and two leading lead lead- ing local officials and others cond condemned t banishment and approximately was Wa paid at as an Indemnity France undoubtedly would have acted more harshly had she not then been been- ensa engaged ed in war with Germany SUbsequent attempts to regulate the conduct of converts and to place the missionaries under control control con con- of tIre Chinese government were we're turned down by th the French Although m many ny missionaries have ha made themselves useful enough to take a place in the hearts or of Chinese Chi Chi- nese in human natU natUre re and superstition as d b by these Incidents in her history tend mu Ut ut-mm- te the perIl in which tl mi missionaries in the interior my mey no fInd themselves |
