The Archive · 1899

THREATENING LETTERS

Yesterday a young man_handed into one of the Mission compounds a well-written letter with card enclosed. The document stated that the writer had overhead a plot to destroy the foreigners and burn their halls. Precautions were at once taken and it is not expected anything will happen. But it is very trying to the nerves to be continuous rain will keep mobs avery, while continually receiving these missives. The

it lasts, at any rate. The examinations come off the end of the present week and we are again threatened with extermination. If we are spared to tell the tale the readers of your valuable journal shall have all its unvarnished trath.

19th September.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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