Simultaneously a number of these in the Nanchi district have been undergoing considerable persecution, and two native preachers who went as peacemakers were seriously beaten, an attempt was made to drown one of them, and both had to be brought into hospital, The general report in that neighbourhood is that the Empress Dowager has determined to expel the foreigners, has already got rid of the Emperor, Kang Yiiwei, and Li Hung-chang, that English influence now is of no account whatever, and that the officials would hail with pleasure a united attempt to drive out the foreigner. Hence these tears!
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.