To the Edilor of the "Nonmt-Onina Darty News." nond at Tome sends cutting from a Home I believe. It is the ever read. Please reproduce it for the sake of letting all who have not seen it have a look at what enlightened editors at Home can produce, and vy of course given as Shanghai, which I very mach doubt. I don't think there any editor of any, nation in Shanghai who could produce such a. piece.
Just at about the time that this news would leave the interior 1 was in one of these cities named.
know the foreigners in them all, and have had news from each of these places within the past few weeks, and there never was anything of the kind.
Imagine paragraph four, missionaries going over the "heads of the Legations in Peking. Then we have Kiukiang as one of the cities of central Kiang: Further "Foreign and American.
There has been some tall talk in the paper in Shanghai, since these troubles began in the South of K and I am sotey to say that ch papers have been very careless as to what news they have spread, and not a few have had-sad hearts over those reports, taking it that since they appear in a. Christian magazine they ave reliable. This has not proved so. T have seen really false reports both in weekly and. in monthly papers, -and if this should catch the eye of any of the be used in publishing such news even when it is taken from another paper, or news agency, as it is sure to cause pain and uneasiness to friends who see it and who have not the means at hand to weigh the account, and also are Many days or as it was recently here, nearly two months irom, where the: could get an answer or make genuine inquiry.
Thanking you for thus trespass ing on your space, am, ete., re in the Interior, 1932, of its cage—not a pleasant sight—but I hope the. bird's feelings are less sensitive than mine if it has to gaze on that all day and every In the grounds are two cockatoos each on an open perch. and the vain efforts of the birds to climb more then 2 few inches up the sides discloses the fact that they are fastened by a tiny length of chain, and a ring over the bar, so that the birds can but walk to and fro along that bar, dragging the [chain with them. T was told a man, apparently in that this was s purely temporary jie tenet referred to is @8] second visit yesterday, 1 and. it 1 arrangements, but on paying a still holds good (or bad).
Cursese Take Missioxanizs Isto The enclosed fines, to be found in a book by W. L. George called "A London Mosaic' might be [United Press.] digested by those who are think-Shanghai, June 22—Foreign ing of adding prisoners to this Zoo, women missionaries have been I am, ete., roped with Chinese two by two Brinn Lover. and driven into the mountains, Shanghai, Sept. 24. 1992, according to reports from Kiaufu. giving details of the most horrible Exrracr from "A Lonpow massacres since the Boxer rebel.
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Soldiers with whips lashed the The Zoo—was founded "to foreign women to hurry them on further the study of animal life,'' {the marech\ into caprivi but—the only character it retained More than 10,000 Chinese and was. a sort of rural insensibility, many foreigners are reported to a-capacity for not understanding have been murdered in widespread what it means to animals, acslaughter by mutinous troops in customed to run 40 miles a day, the Kiangsi province, or to fly out of sight. to find them-British missionaries are report: selves boxed up in small cages. ed to have applied direct to the So the Zoo which is now a Foreign Office at London, over vulgar napery, remains as one of the heads of the Pekin Legation, the ugly blots inherited by our for' assistance against the muni people. I hope to live long enough neers. They are quoted as saying the disaster is the most terrible its suppression. TE sedan "te me. 8 to see Parliament pass act for in_years.
First reports that 10,000 had indecent that. lo should li up outside cages anything between anything between been slain. in the destruction six feet_to 30 feet long, to see Kiaufu, Kiukiang, Kiengchan and! wretched animals pace up and other cities of the central Kiangs' province are believed to be ex ceeded by fresh atrocities.
Hundreds of foreign and Amer. ican missionaries are in danger.
American gunboats are coming. The Quiros and the Monocacy are reported on their way from Kiukiang, The British are sending the down, up and down eternally, or tragic birds hop from an_ upper stick to a lower stick and then back again—not one of them. with space for a full spring or flight, sentenced to penal servitude for life I agree with Mr. Galsworthy that the Zoo is one of the saddest and most disgusting sights in the world.
Bee, the Foxglove and the Cock. chafer.
Several hundred British and American marines will be in the landing parties.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.