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CHINA. 



ward foreiner*, especially Christian*. Saner- accompany ing illustrations, which are fac-simi los 



stitioas nrifodioes wtw as ntnnl played upon of two ant i-riu-iMian cartoons.) In these publi- 



iad the fanatical rancor inflamed bv ambitious cations the people are advised to assault and 



. V;%: . .. ..... . m :,.-. ; 14l ,. !. m^Mnnaru-, and lli.-ir wiv.-s 



rished vamnts committed depreda- On May 28 the Canadian mission at Chengtu 



TJtoo theirisiktts alone, and the was attacked by rioters. The missionaries kept 



ANTI-CHRISTIAN CARTOON. 



were in danger made their es- 

 cape, usually to the treaty ports. Dr. Handle, 

 an American missionary, was maltreated at Ping- 

 Pa on May 7 by soldiers, who were afterward 

 punished. The serious outbreaks occurred in 

 centra) and southern China, where the Chinese 

 stock is purest, the mtlitarv and national spirit 

 strongest, the hatred of foreign devils " keen- 

 est, and the power of the Pekin authorities least 

 effective. Secret political societies seeking the 

 orertK Mam hu dynasty are capable 



of inciting outrages against Europeans for the 

 verv nurpoee of embroiling the Government 

 with foreign powers, and bringing about a situ- 

 ation in which revolution would be possible. 

 .' .: UN - irai ml tii- Oa*> 

 tral (torernraent nearly all the prestige and au- 

 iu\ in the provinces where the anti- 

 dynastie feeling is rife, and in these provinces, 

 tb* mot ingrained with the traditional religion 

 and morality, and impermeable to Christian in- 

 struction, the antipathy of the people toward 

 nupeans was now intensified, because from 

 Barope came the arms and tactics that enabled 

 the Japanese to conquer Chinese territory. 



There is a literary bureau in Hunan active in 

 spite of the efforts of the central authorities to 

 from which are sent out placards, 



picture*, and pamphlets representing Cnrist 

 pi and missionaries as houls who k 



ghouls who kill Chinese 



children in order to get their eyes and brains 

 and liver* for use in Western arts. (See the two 



the mob at bay for some time, but they finally 

 fled for their lives, and their chapel and hospital 

 were looted and burned. The temper of the 

 populace was known to have been for some time 

 in a dangerously excited state, yet the officials 

 took no measures for the security of foreigners. 

 The immediate cause of the outbreak is said to 

 have been the act of one of the medical mission- 

 aries in seizing a boy, one of a crowd that per- 

 sisted in throwing stones at him, and locking 

 him in the chanel. After the looting the boy 

 was found dead and mutilated. An immense 

 crowd gathered. Soldiers and others dug up 

 the ground under the mission buildings, and 

 bones were produced that were declared to be 

 those of children murdered by missionaries, 

 hiof of police, a Taotai from Hunan, is- 

 sued a proclamation declaring that at last evi- 

 dence had been found that missionaries kidnap 

 small children. Two missionaries were arrested 

 for trial on this charge. All the missi< 

 were taken under the protection of th< authori- 

 ties, who did nothing, however, to &rn-^ UK pil- 

 lage and destruction of the missions, which wr nt 

 on from the early morning of Mav 29. On the 

 contrary, the Viceroy, Liu-Ping-Chang, sent out 

 a telegram stating that the mutilated corpse of a 

 child had been found in a foreign place. The 

 disturbance spread to the other places in Szech- 

 uen. The story was placarded everywhere that 

 missionaries had been detected in murdering 

 children to get oil from their bodies. During 



