Just to show what resolution will do I aay mention that the village of Tung! un ueae Paoting and inhabited almost entirely by Roman Catholic converts has for three entire mouths defied all the efforts of the Boxers; the folk threw up a rampart and bought a few Mausers their own resolution guided. by the skill of the Fathers has done the rest. The Treasurer of the Province—l t it be! remembered against him—has offered by proclamation 4,000 taels for the capture of the village; but so far without effect.
Another but larger place to the North of Paoting (20 miles) named Anchiachuang has similarly held out under precisely the same conditions. When one has so much condemn in Chinese officials' duplicity [let it not he forgotten to praise the strong partial justice of the ex-sub-prefect La", a min of Qato-like character and antecedents, who clearly saw to what length the Boxer business was rendi-g and who showed splendid resolution in coping with it till he was superseded. The cause of his removal was curious. The image of a fox in a temple had a red-button. Lio ordered this to be removed with the contemptuous remark that he could not see a fox with a red button while he, a man and a magistrate, had only a crystal. Unhappily the Treasurer had erected a votive tablet in that temple and chose to think that Vulpes' dishonour was his own, so Mr. Lao was dismissed.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.