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Juye Incident

1897 CE · Qing dynasty, Asia · War

Juye Incident
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The Juye Incident refers to the killing of two German Catholic missionaries, Richard Henle and Franz Xaver Nies, of the Society of the Divine Word, in Juye County Shandong Province, Qing China in the night of 1–2 November 1897. The likely target of the attack, the local resident missionary Georg Maria Stenz, survived unharmed.

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