Governor Yuan has been very prompt and obliging to all foreigners, and ix doing excellent work in keeping down the Boxers who swarm in this province. He has issued " proclamation offering IIs. 200 for every Boxer brought in, The country is patrolled very well by his excellent troops. There is but one fear; that Governor Yuan may be called away from here, In fact, we know that he has been ordered, along with Li Hung-chang, to appear at Peking, bur has answered that Shantung is too important a place to leave at present, but that he is ready to sond some of his best military men to aid in suppressing the Boxer movement. Alas! for the foreigners here, shouldtheGovernor leave; and not knowing when that may occur, it is thought wise to leave.
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