I have received the following letter, dated the 4th of October, from a corzespondent at Suifu, and am sure it will interest your readers Last week posters were pasted up in various parts of the city, and on the doors of the Roman Catholic and A. B. M. U. places stating that at the end of the moon we were all to be exterminated. I enclose a translation of the poster for perusal. Note! they call themselves joly Boxer Society, and most feelingly state that they can really forbear no longer How very kind of them! At all events our city people did not take the matter up, a reward of Tls. 200 was secretly offered for their capture, and thus ere the end of the moon they felt it would be wiser to leave for elsewhere, which they evidently did, as no more has been heard of them or their doings. The Hsien promised to iso a proclamation to quiet the people, and assure us_of the magistrate's protection, but up till now no such proclamation has' been issued.
deal about the city, and apart from Taro during those days walked a good whisperings and noddings as one passed nothing unpleasant. has been experienced.
When the French gunboats came hero native members circulated freely the information that the boats had come especially for the Church's protection, and may of them acted accordingly by be erning very bold in laws, and now that the gunboats have all left us I fear there is a certain revulsion of fecting in some quarters, and which if fostered may still cause trouble.
Translation of Boxer Placard posted on the chapel door in Suifu city, 27th September.
We inform all the inhabitants of the city of Suifu that three days ago twenty odd members of the Boxers reached this cit, have come in the name, and with thority of our patron (Lao Chitin), and at the will of owr sago (Confucius) to fulfil the will of Heaven in murdering all the foreign devils in China who continue to propagate their doctrines, and to utterly exterminate all such as enter their churches, and foolishly become their followers.
At the end of this moon we will enter the city, and with the sword murder all such.
We give notice to all the inhabitants who have not entered the religion to close up their shops and the doors of their houses, when they hear a gon signal fired from the hills, and thus escape injury.
All those who have only recently joined this religion, and wish to recant, must not attend the Church services on the morrow, which is their Sabbath Day, and so escape being marked by the spirit soldiers, thus turning danger into hap-
We really can forbear no longer from this act of extermination, and so issue this notice.
Tesued this 26th day of the 8th moon by order of the chief of the Holy Boxer Society.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.