T sce in your paper of 11th September just to hand, that one of your correspondents, the respected Father Robert, at-tenants to demolish the facts quoted by me in a former letter to yon on t subject. I confess my "pen did run with me" and that I gave Sui ite of the riot in question in Li neighbouring city of Luchou; Suifu being under a distinct Roman Catholic bishop although under the same Taotaiship. The riot T described took place in the Tauchou district between the city of that name and Suifu, but otherwise the facts jate as I stated. The unfortunate magistrate of the place, from whose lips I heard detailed account of the transaction, was degraded by the then Fantai of Szechuan, the notorious Wang Chih-chun, subsequently Governor of Anhui, for refusing to he a party to the impos fine of Tls. 300,000 for damage originally set at Tls. 18,000. The Catholic priests, as all know, are hardworking devoted men who have no part in stich political maneurres, which are managed by those in high places, lay and clerical, to whom the true priests and their converts are only pawns in the game.
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