So far as your correspondent has: heard expression of opinion, the Swedish uissionaries are sustained in refusing to deliver vhy hid sought protect and in no way within the meaning of the Treaty. The action of Consul Bock, as reported by your Hankow correspondent, appears to us here to be outrageous, only tending to place the lives of all foreigners in jeopardy, and ax showing utter unfitness for the position he occupies and the duties he has to perform, 18th September.
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