The fortnight which has elapsed since my last Jetter, has seen no improvement in the condition of the country north-east of us as regards the riotous outbreaks against the Christians of the Catholic and Protestant churches... The Catholics huve been the groutest sufferers, pirtly because they are by far the most numerous in the region affected.
"the "ruinous feature about the movement. so far as it'personally conesrns the foreigners living at this point, is that the excitement sti moving' toward Tchoufu. 'Ten days ago mobs were rsbbing the Catholic. stations right and left up to the'very gates of Chitchou city. 'The local official wont out to attempt to prevent the looting of a Catholic village twenty Li of the city, but the' mob turned upon him and accused him of accepting bribes from the forei swear, kneeling in the presence of the crowd, that he had received no mon-y from the missiena The mob then proceeded to loot the village before his serv eyes. This story may not be true iti detail, but is unquestionably trus to the general facts, and is a specimen of the helplessness of the civil authorities, even where they ate disposed to protect the Christians.
A walled town twenty li north of Chuchou was for several days, at least, besieged by a mob estimated at one thousand men. A number of Catholic Chris had taken refuge there and the walls were thirty soldiers who ha: tardily been sent up from here to put down the disturbances! Fiftsen li south of Chiichou city a f-muy of our Christians were menaced by " small mob, but their neigh-ours came forward and pleaded for them on the ground that they hail never done uny-, one harm, and so the would-be rivers desist ed. On the 2ist inst., however,
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