24th April.
As will be seen in the letter of our Chungking correspondent, the province of Kueichou is not re-opened as a promising field for missionary enterprise. There have again been massacres of Christians there on a considerable scale, among the victims being a large number of aboriginal Christians who are entirely harmless, It is again officials who are involved in this persecution, and this is not to be wondered at when it is recalled that the murder of Mr. Flemming in Kueichou occurred some three years ago, and that the case is not settled yet, Sir Claude Macdonald having left this case, which he ought to have closed up long ago and which doubtless would have been closed up if it had been left to Mr. Litton, still open when he was transferred to Tokio, To leave a case like the Flemming murder unsettled is to encourage anti-foreign officials to commit fresh outrages; and we therefore think that
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