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In the seriously. ill, neighbouring After a few complications set in, and t hope of recom for. No-one then took her toseeand examine Tu spite of having seen that it wins i mutilated, this young woman 1 of the hospital madly sere the foreigners taken out th hea and other internal parts of mother from the hospital to t 1 his. was wept pall the Dr. Rigg (medical tars Bridge Hospital) hearing th very: much excited, wraf in to come and hold an inquest, did, and in the presence of a crowd ral hundred persons the body was pliced that "li might. see. When the inquest wats finished and the. daughter declared herself by oath sitistied that there hi een no mutilation of her mother's body it was taken off by relatives, while the crowd after looking over the hospi quietly dispersed.
In the last week of May a murdered boy with his leg mutilated was found outside Kienning city. Te was at once supposed tobe the work of the foreign doctor and for a few days a riot appeared imminent. However, through interference from Fouchow, it was warded off.
On the 3rd Of June the missionaries at Kienyang, 36 miles north of Kiennin, heard many horrible rumours that were being circulated in the city. On the 6th two placards were posted up close to their house and on the city gates, giving a list of atrocities supposed to have been perpetrated by the foreigners at Kienning. With this was a smaller placard calling upon the people to gather together and murder all the foreigners on the 27th of June, and then to kill all the Christians and not let one escape. The missionary in charge at Kienyang, the Rev. H. S. Phillips, at once sent a copy of these placards to the mandarin. He was anay from home and did not return until Thursday the 8th of June. It was generally said in the city that the attack would he on the 12th of June (a Chinese feast day), and therefore Mr. Phillips wrote 4 strong letter to the city gentry urging them to come and search his house, at the same time telling them they were responsible for the safety of the missionaries. to Kiennines and fi h_of June, Dr. Rigg in Foochow, retuned stich had rumours:
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