Acase that points the moral of the above arrangement has just been settled by the district authorities "f Yachou, During the troubles last year when the Catholic mission station near Minsan was rioted and destroyed there was also sri attack made on the home of a solitary member of another mission in that locality. This man's house was looted, one of his relatives wounded and he himself had a narrow escape. When the Viceroy sent down an official from the capital to inquire into and adjust the claims arising from this rior, a modest claim was presented by the man in question, who having suffered in a common disaster sought relief, ax did the others in like plight. all his "*face" indeed by being publicly told that the deputy from the Viceroy with his assistant from "the foreign office" had come to settle French mission dains and had nothing to do wih those of any other mission.
It is not surprising that in face of such treatment any foreigner should be led to suspect the genuineness of Chinese professions and determinations to do right, Such determin ions seem to be colour-
18th July.
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