There remained the claim of the Am-orlean Alliance Mission, who had a station at Supingfu outside the Wall. The missionaries had endeavoured to escape by way of Kalgan, but many bad been slain in their fight.' No representative of the anission had attended the conference for settlement at Taiyuanfu. The American Minister at Peking and Dr. Timothy Richard were approached. At length with the assistance of Mr. Hoste and Dr. Edwards, Shen communicated with the headquarters of the mission in New York, and in the winter of 1901 Mr. and Mrs. Woodberry were sent northward from Shanghai lo Taiyuanfu. The financial position of the lision did not allow of its claim being waived altogether, but a settlement was affected for Just over TI: 50,000. These were the only sums paid to the Protestant Missionary Societies, and on the site of chapels and house= been destroyed proclamations were put ap. stating that. in jes were not the lives lost. months afer the proposal to open a university in Shansi there was issued an Imperial Edict to establish a i i province. Thus there a ity of having two university ¥ of Taiyuanfu. To avoid jealousy and possible friction between the two Dr. Richard went up to Shansi in the spring of 1902. He agreed 0 suggest to the Governor that there should be only one with two departments—one Chinese and the other Western. This met with the approval of the Governor.
By that means Taiynaniu was able to establish what is perhaps the most efficient university in China, with a strong staff of Western professors in addition fo Chinese; and thus the capital of the so recently hostile Shansi is in a fair way to be known as anti-foreign no longer. The staff at the university cludes six Europeans and eight English.
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Mention has already been made of the list of principal Boxers whose punish ment was entrusted to Shen. Of these 105 in all were arrested and decapitated. One day after the settlement had apparently been completed Shen observed an antiforeign placard in the city. This brought home to him the desirability of instituting an efficient police force, and with the experience of Kalzan before him, he was not long in putting the idea into exception. One of the earliest achievements was the discovery in an ut city of the man who had made the wood block from which the antird had been printed. The arrested and executed. Another institution by Shen was the native newspaper " Tsinpao," so called after the ancient name of the province. The people were, however. nardly educated up to the point of reading newspapers, and having started publication Shen bad to devise means of obtaining subscribers. His plan was to institute monthly oxainmations for ud other posts, the questions being jably based on sub-Jeet_matter to be found in the paper. Soon the fascination of newspaper reading began to grow, and although the Tsinpao"" has been only about a year in existence it now has quite a large circulation. There is also an increasing disposition on the part of the Chinese to take shares in the Company which is responsible for its production. The news matter, it may be said, is based upon what {has already appeared in Shanghai and Canton, so that outside influences are kept at work
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