| Show FULLER DETAILS eyewitnesses Ee scribe ku cheng massacres fearful suddenness of the attack and horrible butchery eally told victoria B 0 dept P private letters from shanghai just received here announce that the appointed by alie british and menta to investigate the ku cheng massacre of august ast 1st reached foo chow on august days later and ku cheng on august without a shadow 0 molestation from jhb barbarous hordes alleged by chinese official to have established a reign of terror throughout the province the corn mission of the british consul R W the american consul col J coartney alix anthe vice consul L B alien from pagoda anchorage ancho roge 0 the P S S detroit abe rev W bannister Ban the engleh church missionary society ety arid ir gregory of the american 11 E mission has an escort of but of he vice roys ul amad and poorly disciplined soldiery which eup porte but feeby hp contention that the entirely 4 official prevention to the country being in revolt thia defense is regarded by all british and american residents in territory ate farcical a the commit eion d it I 1 by any of or americal Ameri caa force and indignation runs at by these government fi in ro paril to the it is argued that the official defense ie totally untenable as under the law a system of mutual crevalle prevalle pr evalle all public belil personally responsible for the of crime euthin their are le Biti blamable or not and arc the penalties in the event of their tailing to apprehend and coniah the criminal in gereon the commission had at last received the statements of three wit ceasee dr gregory of the american il E mission at too chow the kev II 11 E and liea hannon of ku chieng the latter two having been eyewitnesses of the fearful scenes of august ast 1st BEV PIll LUpa the rev mr phillips tell how he wan at 0 in the inor nina by the tb outing in tle direction 0 the stewarts home first it was children playing bet soon recognizing alie voices of men he bcd hasUly jini 1 I wae few yards oni itaw dwelling lie say by a native who while th rowine hie arms around a to detain me told me h vegetarians had come I 1 shook him off and in eight of the boune from which for w tidy bandiga bandita were cauling loads 0 plunder their leailur aloft a emall red kas 1 could nothing 0 our europeans Kuro and ai I 1 wae in fiall view of the rioters I 1 crept up a hill hi the anil concealed behind two treca roin twenty to inroy yard from the I 1 could eee and not ic been ai I 1 bulj fee no I 1 concluded they and an to down wo death 1 thought it bettor to wait where I 1 was after a minute or two ibe retreat horn bounded and the lan to leave first however gelling alre to the hou ten after this every biad eone I 1 came down and looked about the rout of the house but could see nothing of any one I 1 feared dreadful had happened R I 1 heard aliu ae they left ear now all the foreigner arp killed 1 I just then met one of alie ec rant wa told me the 01 inese were in the house which mlis hartford ot tho american nishon was staying r found mr Hart forde daughter Al ildred with turlon on ono neo nn oher bevere cut alien I 1 biad wa elied bliesa I 1 to herbert stewart son who waa hacked and cut everywhere etien aa elint roe a nic bage that elie too in tho I 1 found her in a fearful con but with cold water and rage we to tho she begged me not to wait a tie thought hundere calill wa lill alive I 1 then to thi back of tho house and auni alie bodies ot mins sander mira steward Ste warr mies bordan and miss ilar ahall tho latter was awfully cut lier bend being almost severed but beyond tho wound given in tin the bodies were not mutilated later I 1 found Alies lf new combs body at the foot of the hill in front of the where it had evidently been thrown As then I 1 could eee no 0 mr and mrs stewart alisa saunders dera and lena the nurse we hoped they had ce capoJ and I 1 returned to the house where tho stew art children and miss Codrin ifton were mio hartford arrieta ar rivta she had received a cut under one car but had been from death by a native christian I 1 learned later tonii alie five ladica of tho benana society Boci ety who lived in the two which forai alie 0 chedie sanitarium after a futile effort to escape cot out of alie hack and were ly surrounded of the vegetarian were inclined to pare them but were ordered by leader to carry out their onion kill and pare not had they ix en able to escape into alie brush there little doubt they have been bayed A great misfortune was that only two were dressed clr and sire stewart were elun el un aft they pran from lena tie diarse died tiro stuns tle baby whom kathleen managed la carry out of the house though not before the babaa ayea had been cut out amiee wa ali knocked dow n at the nursery door when boine to help tho children and we afterwards found alio remains of n burdit body tharo we had liello doubt it waa her for a ions bitne e that at least clr and MM had escaped but later I 1 found their bodies or rather ashes in what had been their bedroom the hua sane people teemed bad as a whole no hand in alie affair though doubtless four or five vegetarian families were concerned the natives say the vegetarian band came on alie east road offu cheng city many tron and aaeng beng within thirty or forty miles of ku chang uius experience mies hortland baye alie whole terrible was over in and that the attacking parta numbered about well organized under one loader her own terrible experience exper ienco elio relates tuu 1 I heard choute and yell on the streets and on my clothes I 1 rushed to the door to be met by a man with a trident and depear who yelled here a foreign 1 the man pointed lii pear at my breast but I 1 twisted the weapon at onu side and it just grazed my ear and head lie then threw me to the ground and beat me etith tho wooden end 0 the acar but a servant came wrenched the weapon away and told me to fly I 1 jumped down the encampment and ran along the road the allowed oll owed and pulled me alone until I 1 got up to the eide of the hill whore I 1 aad dowa to get breath after reeling twice I 1 reached a ev cluied spot and lay there this tame the yells went an and the tiro hauses were burning atter a while the yells stopped and we supposed the vegetarians had gone then the cervant went to ce how matters were up n n half an hoar telling me to conic home and that five laljia of hie mission had been killed and some of the wounded were of my bouse thie was native house and waa not troubled at all pr gregory tells how the was first brou glit to him by a messenger from the kev mr and how when ho auit at ti anu yamen he found hundreds of people already ra there the district magistrate boag told me he would immediately go to hwa shang narrated dr gregory bome sixty soldiers with him and at 3 p m I 1 left under the csc thirteen soldiers and arrived at hwa bhang at 6 to find eliat nine adults all english subjects had tian murdered and all those alive at shan had been severely injured I 1 at once set to work to make the injured comfortable as possible po seible and found my task indeed 4 difficult one after describing the nature and of the injuries inflicted dr gregory the massacre wn undoubtedly committed by members of lie eacret society known as the vegetarians and the murder was done to order deliberately planned and executed by a party of men armied with spears and ewanic and allowing emphatic evidences airs of the mission band had no of which was swift and terrible alie bhole affair being over il much less time than i takes to write it though ur gregory does not hold the native officials responsible as leaving been directly concerned in the massacre he believes they hail knowledge that it was contemplated but remained inactive owing to dread of the aw lariane tar iane power fur the same reason lie that dinless great britain and the united states assert themselves aitu the matter ft ill go no further than a formal inquiry that il ascertain gotling not ling nore the drible rr ible facts already all tx well known and perhaps an t official regrets regret 1 reparation jui aliu christian de ti royed |
