Minister to Tokio isin the tight corners. He cannot move Legation for fear of Chinese sai he is not quite safe inside, for Hssioms within the last few days practically curried the Legation The trouble is said. to be thi school here called the Sei which thes: students wish to but it is necessary to have a om their Minister, and this be astute Minister seems very "grant. For a long time he Siu the usual diplomatic Chinese aflably that he had referred to Peking, and was awaiting set a response. On Monday inst., the patience of the however, exhausted, and a om them called at the Lega-rik matters over as between and Chinamsn, to vary Me. historic phrase. The Minister hem graciously after he dis-at they had found their his house and ascertained home. He received them, leaming countenance, and en.
explain matters to them in as gracious and self-possessed a manner as possible, although he did not half like their tooks while the discussion was going on, ad—alas! getting more and more un-'More students ibezan to arrive until there were about a hundred within the Legation eonpounl. Then the rections began. How they began, wiveth +r in the manner delineated by Bret Harte in the case of cee ce the row That broke up our Society Upon the Stanislaw," or in some less dignified manner, sar, for instance, by the swinging round and round of the Minister by his pigtail, history doth not say. Atall events the police had to be telephoned fo-, and on their arrival the disorderly students dispersed, leaving seven or eight in custody. These were released on Tuesday, but not until their comrades had made another assault on the Legation with the object of avenging their imprisonment. On this occasion als" the p lice lisd to be telephoned for, and assam they succeeded in rescuing the representative of Chiat from the hands of his youthful but insubordinate subjects.
Probably other causes than thos" I have mentioned operated. I ain sure that the example of the Japanese stud-nts has operated strongly on thy minds of their Coleial confreres: and unto-tuavely the Japanese student is by far and away the most insubordinate student in existence". Another cause is the feeling that prevails among She Chinese students here that their present Minister has been aguinst their pretence in Tokio from the rst.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.