Hostility towards foreigners in Szechuan seems to huve died down, various travellers reporting quiet journeys without any trouble beyond that experienced by usual curiosity on the part of the natives, though the better class of nese complain bitterly of the enormous indemnity which is now being paid to the French as their elsie for damages sustained by the Ya Muntze rebellion. This indemnity far and away exceeds the value of the property destroyed, and to all right thi Chinamen is unjust. The Chinese officials would like a claim of this description as often as possible, as itis a gra chance for a gigantic squeeze. Part of this money is being used by the French Fathers for the purchasing of land in Chungking. They have bought a number of properties, which cover large urea, and in so doing are displaying a considerable amount of an= tagonism to the Chinn Inland Missi This Mission was desirous of securing a mall piece of land that ix bounded on three sides by their property and on the fourth by the street. The place is " public nuisance and belonged to a Roman Catholic convert, The French Fathers compelled the owner to sell_to them, although they knew the LIN. were anxious to procure it, and now refuse to sell to the C. I. Mission, although it is uselew to the Missions Btrangtres de Paris.
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