Hongkong, 10th February.
The Berlin Mission Station at Lukhang (Fayen) has been burnt by anti-Christian Chinese. The family of missionary M. Bahr escaped to Canton. The attackers were lately connected with the Catholic Church, which they had joined to escape punishment for the uprising in 1900.
The Dutch steamer Berandan of the Nederlandsche Maatschappij has foundered in the Riouw Straits. The captain and sixteen of the crew are missing.
The " Pennyless Globetrotter" Schiffler, who has undertaken to go around the world on his bicycle, as far as circumstances do not force him to travel by ship, wires us from the capital of Kueichou Kueiyang, 6th February.
"Arrived all right, Chinese hospitality everywhere first rate. Regards to all friends."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.