in South Chili and Shantung are increasingly in evidence, In a piteous appeal for help, the Rev. R. W. Rees at Shiaocbang states that their compound has nearly hundred native Christian refugees, who have been reduced to destitution and expelled from their houses by these spurious patriots. Great anxiety is still felt here for the safety of many Europeans in the slistrict. [t seems to us a sad imprudence that the wives and children were not sent in to Tientsin for the winter.
You were doubtless informed by telegraph of the ghastly and atrocious murder of the Rev. Sydney Brooks, of the C. M.S., near Taianfu, in Shantung, on December the Bist by these Boxers. We have few details yet, but we know that the amiable young clergyman was going back to his Station from a visit to his sister, Mrs. Brown, who recently came out from Canterbury as the bride of the Rev. H. T. Brown, of the same mission. Me. Brooks was first assaulted and grievously wounded, then decapitated by another gang. The Chinese in Peking Knew of the tragedy before Bishop Scott, who is in constant communication with the Minister and the Tsungli Yamea "bout it. General Yuan Shih-kai will now be on the spot; he has already strict orders punish the murderers and once for all exterminate the Society.
1th January.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.