'MOB, All this information shows that the power of the Viceroys of Kuangtung and Fukien is not sufficient to compel their subordinates to protect the property of the various missionary Societies, nor to take proper action after the outbreaks have occurred. Unless the settlement at Peking is speedy, it will be months before inland districts inthe centre and south of China are safe either to live in or even to travel in. This too in. spite of the pledges of the Central and Southern Viceroysto protect foreigners and mission property. The one thing to be most thankful for is that so far very few native Christians Lave been molested or killed in the South. May this distinction long hold true!
15th August,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.