of our ex-Governor Ya in making a show of putting down these anti-Christian disturbances' (which are really anti-foreign pure and simple), while covertly, nay almost openly, encouraging the malcontents and ruffians who are creating the trouble, has fostered an anti-foreign spirit which is ever growing in virulence and is spreading to the classes who have been leretofore friendly to foreigners. It is said that our new Governor Yuan Shih-kai intends to put down these demonstrations with a strong hand. Ifhe does not dose your Shantung correspondents, or mayhap survivors who have taken their places, will have to record some items of news that will sound very much like the terrible rumour we have recorded above.
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