Recently six American sailors passed through the port. They had been discharged in Canton and travelled by sea as far as Foochow. The American Cvnsul there instead of helping them to Shanghai by bout, advised them to tramp overland! "They finally made their way to this port, and were assisted to Shing: hai by the British Consul here and some others. The Americin Consuls on the river appear to have refused to zive these sailors any help, and it was to the kindness of a British ship that they owed the assistance which placed them in Shanghai with afew clothes and a little mousy in their pockets. The American Consuls ace said to have no funds at their disposal for the relief of their destitute nationals, an arrangement which is in marked contrast with the generosity of most of the fiaancial arrangements of the United Stars in the East; but most British Consuls would prefer to be out of pocket themselves rather thi allow the charge of assisting their compatriots to fall on those of another nationality.
Attack on a Catholic Missionary.
One of the Lazarist: missionaries, Paco Fatiguet, had a very trying experience in village thirty or forty miles away. The villagers attacked him with slones, and! when he took refuge in a house, tied him up for several hours. Finally he escaped, but he has been oblige! to go into hospital, and it is not exp-otod that he will ever entirely get over the consequence.
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