News of another mission outrage has just reached Canton on the 18th instant a band of Black Flags and other roughs attacked the Wesleyan Mission Church at Yingtak on the North River, and tore it down with great frenzy, at the same time sacking and looting the houses of the native Christians in the vicinity. One young convert was carried off by the gang, with threats that he should be killed unless ransom is forthcoming. This outrage is, I am glad to think, not so much an anti-foreign or anti-missionary outbreak as a riotous act by a lawless band of freebooters.
Hongkong, 25th August.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.