Nows on Tuesday reached Shanghai serious anti-missionary outrage which was perpetrated on Monday, the Ist of June, at a place called Sungyiang about 400 up the Wenchow river, the sufferers being the Rev. Mr. Klein and the Rev. Mr. Manz, of the German China Alliance Mission. The facts exhibit the too familiar features of riots in China—an anti-foreign spirit encouraged by the dissemination of slanderous tales, the assembly of a riotous mob determined to drive out the foreigners, and official indifference, and even insolence, when the aid of the yamen is sought. The German China Alliance Mission, two of whose representatives have been the sufferers by the present outbreak, for about five years had a successful mission at the prefectural city of Chu-chao. Recently it was decided to open a station at Sungyiang, for which purpose Mr. Klein and Mr. Man visited the place. They successfully surmounted the usual opposition in the way of obtaining a site, and anticipated no serious danger. On Monday, the Ist inst., however, after dinner the house was attacked
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