Thanks to the courtesy of one of the elficers of the Poochi, we are enabled to xive some interesting details regarding the position at Wenchow. All the missionaries and the Consul had @ conference last Tuesday with the Taotai. The latter said he would give all protection to foreigners, but those who knew him took the statement cum grano salis. The Taotai proved himself The military. ace distinctly anti-foreiga in utterly powerless during the last rice riots.
their sympathies. The walls of the city and the gates were all clused when the steamer left, to prevent an invasion by Boxers.
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