Last year the magistrates closed a Japanese preaching ball at Wongkong, the scene of the late rising, and sent the bonze under escort to the J: Consul at Swatow, charged fering in law suits and stirring bd trouble. Failing to secure the reopening of the place by the local officials the Japanese Consul has referred the matter to Peking. Representations there have secured action on the part of the Canton Viceroy, who has ordered the Fa at Ch'aochoufu and the foreign deputy resident at Swatow to proceed to Wongkong, make inquiries und report.
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