Attack on Missionaries in China
ANOTHER outrageous attack on Christian missionaries in China is reported, this time from Kien Yang, in Fukien. Rev. H. S. Phillips took up his residence there last year. There was the usual trouble about leasing ground, and when a house was being built, the masons were beaten by a mob. The mandarin made no attempt to punish the offenders. On October 8, soon after Mr. and Mrs. Phillips had moved in, placards were posted on the city gate, "Drive out the devil." The same day a crowd attacked the house, threw filth over everything, beat Mr. Phillips' native servants, and then set fire to the house. The missionary and his wife escaped to the mandarin's yamen, but they lost all their effects. A powerful family in the city have sworn to eject the missionaries, and the mandarin seems unable to cope with them.