toward the rights of foreigners and native Christians, as judged from prochunations, is studiedly correct. The new Govern Sung Shou has issued a in imitation of those of Governor Yiiw in Shantung. He prefaces it by speaki of how Yuan kept peace in his pro last year, and of how he wishes ro follow that'good example. Rewards are promised to the gentry of districts in which there are Missions and in which no trouble occurs for x year, and official butrous if for three years there is peace. Disturbances are to be severely punished. At Changiéfa the district magistrate sent men on the streets beating gongs and forbidding any plundering of the native Christians.
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