The mobs treat the Christians with groat severity in many instances. Very frequently their houses are torn down-fter everything portable has been taken. Two Catholics have been lined-und n large number injured." One of our Christians, an old woman of inoffensive character, was nearly stripped of her clothing and wns tied a beam to make her surrender the deeds of the family homestead. The usual excuse for these cowardly proceedings is that the Christians: are no longer Chinese. Of cause, che anti-foreign motive is in most of these cases accompanied by the prospect of spoiling a neigh hour of his gouds,-but the real "animus of the movement is unmistakeably antiforeign. Anti-foreign placards have also been posted eighty [1 south of here on the road to Tsingkiangpu. We have secured copies of we of them and cal ed the attention of our local magistrate to the matter.
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