His Excellency the Gorernor, who left here on the 4th of April, is having a pleasant holiday up North and is reported to intend spending the summer months in Japan, Sir Henry has been delivering his opinion, while in Kale, on the Boxer movement, but after a perusal of the words of wisdom that are reported to have fallen from him, I have come to the conclusion that H-E., like the rest of us, knows nothing about this strange sect or band of fanatics. All that seems clear to me is that these men have persuaded themselves, and their silly admirers, that they {are invaluerable, and hence' they are spoiling for a fight with someone—the "hated fan-kwei" for preference, If a detachment of our gallant marines could yet near them with their bayonets they Would soon effectually prick this bubble, and dissipate this ignorant illusion.
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