is not whether the insurrection will be "put down," which ix as easy a9 to scatter a flock of wild ducks by the arrival of boat full of hunters. The ducks simply fly to other and more inaccessible waters. The boat is safe, and so are the ducks. What is imperatively necessary all the principal leaders should be prompt ly arrested and dealt with asx Chine: In requires, Nothing less that nothing other than this, will give guarantee for the future, The slaty of every foreign interest in China, as well ne the well-bein; OF the Chinese themselves, require that this step should be forced upon the Chinese authorities by the furei; Powers interested, in case they do not take it of themselves, as it is greatly to be hoped they will.
26th December, 1899.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.