MR. HERBERT ROBERTS (Denbighshire, W.)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the Government have received any confirmation of the telegram reporting the murder by Chinese rioters of the missionaries the Rev. H. S. Phillips, Mrs. Phillips, and a lady friend, during their attempted escape from Kien-yang.
§ * MR. BRODRICKNo, Sir. According to a telegram from Her Majesty's Consul at Foochow, received on the 17th instant, there was a riot at Kienning on the 15th instant, when property of the Mission was 65 burnt and two Chinese converts were killed, but it was hoped that all foreigners were safe. Information reached the Church Missionary Society yesterday to the effect that the missionaries were safe.