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Waterbury Democrat
Waterbury, New Haven County, Connecticut
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Bloody conflicts over ten days on Korea's Quelpart Island between Roman Catholic missionaries' pupils and natives, sparked by support for illegal tax levies, killed 15 natives and 300 pupils. French warship investigated false report of missionary deaths. Korean government commissions investigation.
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BERLIN, July 12.-The Cologne Gazette publishes a dispatch from Seoul, Korea, dated July 6, saying that bloody conflicts, extending over a period of ten days, have occurred on the island of Quelpart between the Roman Catholic missionaries and their pupils and the populace of the island. Fifteen of the natives and about 300 of the mission pupils are reported to have been killed during the encounters.
The governor of Quelpart, according to the dispatch, says the trouble was the fault of the pupils and arose from their support of the tax collectors in levying illegal taxes upon the natives.
Upon hearing that two French missionaries had been killed on the island a French warship proceeded to Quelpart. Upon finding the missionaries in question alive the warship returned.
The Korean government has commissioned Huan Kian and an American court official to investigate the matter.
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Island Of Quelpart, Korea
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Extending Over A Period Of Ten Days, Dispatch Dated July 6
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fifteen of the natives and about 300 of the mission pupils killed; two french missionaries reported killed but found alive; french warship returned; korean government to investigate
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Bloody conflicts occurred between Roman Catholic missionaries and their pupils and the populace. Trouble arose from pupils' support of tax collectors levying illegal taxes. French warship proceeded to island upon hearing of two French missionaries killed but returned upon finding them alive. Korean government commissioned Huan Kian and an American court official to investigate.