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THE ANTI CHRISTIAN RIOTS, Since the date of my last letter, nearly a month ago, the riots against the Christians in this prefecture have gone merrily on. There was the expected lull in connection with the New Year's festivities when it is, of course, not quite in good form to rob able abiding place over his head, but now your neighbour and pull down his honour-and this time in the country of T'sh-the ball has been once more opened, ch'éng, the next adjoining, county on our south, and in the southern part of this county, Lan Shan, up to within thirty @i of the city. There are almost no Protestants in the region specified but the Caholics have suffered heavily. The resident priest has informed us that even before the present outbreak no fewer than two hundred of their families had been robbed, some of them being people of posi-tiou and substance, and' that eighteen chapels had been destroyed, this, of course, mainly in the east and north-east. It would seem that for some reason the German Government is not backing the mission up as might have been expected, seeing that Tsintao was seized ostensibly for an outrage which, though it involved the loss oftiro. German lives, was not nearly so threatening to national prestige as is the present situation, USELBSS SOLDIERS, of the Lame Gorernment is only apparent.
It may be, however, that the inactivity As for the Protestants, thanks to the steady Consul Fowler and Minister a pressure which is being brought to bear by Minister Conger, we have some pr respect of securing a' certain measure of but justice in the nesr_tuture, he pusillanimity of some of the local the hostility of others, and the niter inefficiency of the military, combine fo make the tusk of securing justice a vers dificult one. The two or three hundred cavalry which came down from Chinanfu and Tainganfu with such a flourish of trumpets (the figure may be taken literally) have returned to their distant camps after left for their rulers.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.