3-086-027 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Sack of the American Mission, Chung-King: north view of Chung-King and Kia-Ling River, Kiang-Peh City on the left, 1898. 'Disturbing news of native rioting in the suburbs of Chung-King, the capital of the wealthy Chinese province of Süchwan, brought brief intelligence of the sack of the American Medical Mission in Kiang-Peh on March 17, the murder of one of the staff, and the maltreating of other members by the mob...Kiang-Peh, which...may be rendered as "River North," is a suburb of Chung-King lying on the northern bank of the Yangtse, opposite the main bulk of the town, which forms, at the confluence of the Kia-Ling and Yangtse Rivers, the chief port of Süchwan. It is a small independent department governed by a "T'ing," magistrate. It has always had the notoriety of being an anti-foreign city - that element being chiefly produced by the literary class and a lower class, who act as their tools. All classes, from officials downwards, have been glad to avail themselves of medical help from the foreigner, and invitations to go over there from Chung-King have been given. Dr. J. H. McCartney, of the American Methodist Episcopal Mission, recently inaugurated work over at Kiang-Peh, and it is one of his assistants who was murdered'. From "Illustrated London News", 1898.