On the 21st October, 'Tseng, the acting magistrate at Yungeh'eng, issued a lengthy proclamation' against the Boxers in accordance with Governor Yuan's instractions. Tt concludes with categorical instructions to village headmen. Places used by Boxers for the purpose of practising their rites are to be levelled with the earth without regard to ownership. Informers will receive half the possessions of those guilty, or the whole if they apprehend such and produce them for trial, Headmen will be punished according to their rank if they fail to report delinquents, and so forth through many dite penalties to all who favour, directly or indirectly, the Boxer rebels, Mr. Tseng waxed poetic also. Yuan's proclamation quoted above, was in metre indeed, but of n correct ant stilted \d. Mr, Tseng, in another poster, ox-herts his people in popular ballad style (HRY) sud in the simplest Mandarin, beginning, 'I bes you people to listen to my words.' (fF) RAIS). The general style of the document may be judged from a couple of sentences culled atrandom—22 7 & AAG JERK BASE. These are not printed here as a model for style but as casting light on a problem which has made rapid strides
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