This incident is by no means a solitary one of its kind, either this year or durin previous years. Last September. 68 sud charges, and of even deeper gravity. were brought before the notice of the French Consul-General 34 victims of Catholic. violence and extortion came at their own expenses, and at grave personal risk, to attest their griefs upon oath and to mee} 'M. Ratard at Ningpo. Of these, he formally accepted the depositions of at least dozen, promising the complainants as a body that he would, within three months, go in person to Taichow and hold an exhaustive enquiry. In one of these cases, the now historic " Rice Case," he called for a report from the Magistrate of Taiping, who at once replied that the "Consul should call on Mon. rs to make full restitution." Ten months have elapsed, yet nothing whatever has been done.
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