The Archive · 1904

A Now Church

The same mission, under the auspices of your correspondent, has just colebratthe opening of a new Church in Fanchéng, on Easter Sunday. Members of the different missions, and very many (hinese were present.

A Roman Catholic Mob raised a great row on the stroot the other day. Two gamblers began fighting over the stakes. One, the aggressor, got 'a crowd of Catholics together and went to look forthe other, fellow: This one had a relative in a gunboat, and managed to get some of the gunboat soldiers to help him, It came toa free fight in the street. Some blood was shed. The soldiers were defeated and three of them were carried away and locked up in a Roman Catholie's house. The: foreign priest was away. The affair has been hushed up, but the officials concerned are. very sore about it. The pity is that this is no exceptional case. A Roman Catholic. mob, howling. and yelling along the streets on their-punitory expeditions, is quite a common thing.

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