could hardly be imagined, and this after months of exhortation to both Governor and Asien officials, to guard against such an outcome by meting out justice to the miserable who have been given a free hand ig their looting and ste our innocent Christians, It will carry out to the letter the policy he gave usin, x personal interview the other day—" to destroy them utterly." We have reason to believe that he will do it, having already offered rewards for the arrest of leaders, and having nent out troops to the needy points. But the Society has gotten such a start that it will not be the work of a day to destroy it, Some of the fu and Asien officials would be more active, no doubt, in this matter, if Yuan Shih-kai was here as permanent Governor, but it is well-known that he is appointed only temporarily, and should they really do anything toward suppressing the rioters, whea the former Governor returns they would at once lose their positions, and probably their coveted buttons, We can hope they will show a little courage now, for though some of them are very" shortsighted apparently, they certainly know—that England will never permit of Yii Hsien holding office in China, if indeed they allow him to live. Crime cannot be more directly traced to where it belongs, than can a murder of Mr. Brooks be traced to Yii si
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