Mandarindom is quite a little stirred up over the murder of the young English missionary Brooks, of Bishop Scott's Mission—not exactly over the murder, but over what Her Majesty's government may do about the matter. Yuan Shih-kuni has sent word to Sir Claude Macdonald that he will pursue, capture, and punish the perpetrators of this dastardly outrage in the shortest possible time, and it is reported that the Empress Dowager has also sent to Sir Claude an expression of her deep regret. The Chinese generally seem to express the view that it is bad enough that a Britisher should have been murdered, and yet they all say: "But it's good it was not a German or we would lose'all Shantung." No news has arrived yet of the recovery of the body of the unfortunate young man,
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