had been done to the mission buildings, as they had been led to expect from reports brought in by letter to Chefoo, that though the buildings might be standing they would find them in very bad condition. "It waa even reported that the soldiers who were guarding the premises had torn up the floor of the Dispensury belonging to the Men's Hospital, and had used it, together with the furniture of the hospital, for fuel. On the contrary no such evidence of wanton damage to buildings was found, and the native furniture was apparently intact, 80 far as the superficial examination showed, There was, however, a notable absence of outside Chinese doors leading from court to court, and the supposition is that these were in all probability burned up as fuel during the winter. When it came tu the examination of the interior of three foreign residences, and espycially of the one which is a two-storey building, there were painful evidences that the Gurernor's soldiers, who had bee. set to guard the houses, or 'p sibly outsiders who had stolen in, hid made themselves very much at home in tie way of going through all the bureaux, closets, and boxes they could fi-d, and helping thomnselves to anything they took a fancy to. In cases where they found a locked door an incon venient obstacle they did not hesitate to kick out a lower panel and crawl Sirough the opening thus made and rifle the room of its contents, Still, even in these cases, the examiners were surprised at the self-denial of the robbers, as they left a goodly amount of plunder lying around on the floors unappropriated, and did not trouble
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