An enlightened ant progressive mander of the higher ranks who has always shown usself friendly ty foreigners and reform, ed from Kvaiféng, the procial capital of Honan, which' from all outs is iutemted, in the near future, to the Eupress D.wazer's set of Govern for awhile. He brings many " tale of injustice by the reactionary Governor of Honan, Yii Yin-tin, szainst a number of district and nther wyistrates of Honan, who last year incurred his displeasure and. those of his immediate subordinate officers of the same type 4s himself, for showing extra solicited energy in trying to do. their duty to ani converts who happened to be within their several jurisdictions during the perilous and troublous times of last summer.
Those few officials who, under exceptional difficulties and very real peril to their own lives, tried to protect whatever missionaries, their converts and property they could, wer subsequently privately made to understand that they had disobeyed the so-called Imperial decrees of the latter part of Juni, 1900, commanding the total extermination of foreigners and their sympathisers, and had also violated the injunctions of their superior officers, who had.
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