To the Editor of the "Nonts-Cuisa Darcy News."
Sin,—Dr. J. W. Hewett astounded a are audience on Saturday night by telling of his prison oxporiencen, Severzi successive parties of missionaries during July-October in their flight from torture and death in Shansi have been treated as criminals and thrust into the county prisons in at least nine county capitals right through central Honan, from north to south, viz, AR Chengehou, ARR Bein. chenghsien, $2.54 Ch'anghéhsion, 2 Heuchong, BRZE Livyinghsion, TEER Yenhénghsien, ZAER Woyang' 3&2E suiptinghsion, ana Fe [Ly oh shanbsien. Messrs. J. W. Hewett, J. Cooper, A. R. Saunders, and A. Lutley could supplement the list. Will those vile dens, after receiving Western men, women, and children, be allowed to stand as a menacing insult to future travellers, possibly to receive again some day other relays of unfortunate trusters in English and Chinese passports guarantee. ing civility and protection (2.7%. Your Chinese readers will appreciate the printing of the two characters for ' protect ' upside down, for this is Chinese for irony, and is probably the form in which protection dispatches were written. Germans blow up temples in which their nationals have been tortured. Would demolition be too severe a reprisal for the yamens where Westerners have been treated as felons, yea, as Chinese felons amid filth, stinks, vermin, and starvation in charge of underlings notorio as the offscourinss of even Chinese society Tam, ete.
Ose or Yii Case's Vicrius, 18th November.
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