Moreover, the rioters, mostly Kolaohui men, not content with dest: eying chapels and mission property, after tasting the joys of looting, have begun to plunder the native Christians and to destroy their houses also, 60 that in these districts th now reign of terror. So far no Christians have been killed, but everything, short of actual slaughter, is being done to intimidate, molest. and lob them, in the hope of compel-Jing them to give up their allegianes to the hated foreign religion. Unless the native authorities act speedily and with severity, the same tactics will be tried in other dix: tricts, and all the region inland from Amoy will become quite unsafe, not. only for foreigners, but for the large body of native Christians scattered over a wide area.
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