Jan, 3.
The following article from a reader who speaks with long experience of life in the interior of China, though more in the form of a letter to the Editor follows naturally in the same place as the two leading articles to which it replies. There is @ freshness in the point of view advanced which commends it to attention.
In the last ' North-China Herald' to hand I notice two leading articles on ''The Up-Country Foreigner's Peril' and ""The Stormcloud over China,"' as well as other items anent the lawlessness prevalent all over the country.
That the portents are disquieting no one will dispute, neither sould some be surprised at a big flare up within the next year, perhaps half year.
The writer of the former article suggests that all foreigners be recalled to the open ports, where gunboats are supposed to be able to protect them. I am afraid the writer has not thought this matter through, but rather dealt with it superficially. In the face of the recent looting at Ichang—to say nothing of the
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.