The city has been full of rumours concerning the alleged outrages said to have been committed by the German soldiers at Jilchao. It must be with sorrow acknowledged that, for slander of the most the people of our adopted country are hard gratuitous, ingenious and base description, to beat.
It goes without saying that the German soldiers are not all saints. It may even be admitted that some of them are too prone to let the Chinese feel the weight of the mailed fist, but it would be gross injustice to believe more than about a-hundredth part ofthe lurid stories which the Chinese tell about then. In. the case of Jilichao, for example, we are in a position to know that only one act of violence was done and that was perhaps justifiable. An officer and two privates went out five G from the city to survey. The officer was set upon by aman with a fierce dog. He shot the dog and the man went for assistance and
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