to assert that he was at or near the scene at the time of alleged misdeeds or can of his own personal knowledge vouch for any of, the acts said to have been committed ther The truth is, that he, in common with all the other correspondents, have been almost solely dependent on the highly and characteristically coloured descriptions given by their Chinese friends. " I suppose every resident in Chinois well aware of the voluntary and'wilful exaggeration with which the native narrator will "pitch a tale" into the ears of sympathetic listeners, and my own impression is, after examining a good many of the statements and hearing what those foreignors.who have since visited the spot. shave to-say on the subject, that although regrettable acts were committed, and which, if Tess recklessness had been shown, might, -at least, have been: considerably still, the. very strong partisan opponents of the Japanese are no. doubt, unintentionably, going to too great extremes both in their statements and the language used to convey them. Again they somewhat unjustly ignore the tremendous provocation hich the Japanese have had to put up. with. and. are receiving, as well as the -forbearing and conciliatory attitude,. the government at any rate, now_-are showing.
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