It is reported from Hankow that about fon days ago there occurred a pitched battle between R.C. Chinese converts and those of the Protestant faith at Hanch'aan, district of Hupeh province, where there are said to be s-veral thousand converts belonging to one or the other faith. Several lives were lost on this occasion and the high provincial authorities at Wuchang consider the affair goave enough to instruct the Provincial Judge Li and. Teen Taotai f Hankow to make personal investigations into it. It is also stated that disputes and minor fights "ften happened between the converts of the rival faiths previous to the pitched battle referred Ca above, butt 40 far there had_heen no loss of life." N verts in Hupeh are said to he an:
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