Whoever pleads necessity and helps himself to other people's goods must first of all show very unustial circumstances to be entitled to a hearing; and each appropriation must then be judged of on its own I merits. I have no doubt the ionones who had thus to help themselves did so with a clear conscience, and their orities would hardly have acted otherwise under the circumstances.
il looting of every and unjustifiable—and looting has a bad name, and the reproste it sticks. Apart from the exhilarating. wave had Chinese members of their churches, I do not think that Chinese sufferers will make any special distinction as regards the foreigners concerned. They will simply say: " Foreigners looted." But non-Christian Chinese are said to be very wroth over the indignities put on them by the—for the moment triumphant—conrerts, and -the losses they attribute to their initiative and their growing greed.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.