About the time the vice-consul reached the consulate, the victim received a second piece of instruction, in the guise of removal from the barracks of the third Battalion to the headquarters of the general. Preceded by four buglers, there marched a procession of about 100 soldiers, in the midst of whom were six men armed with sticks, thrashing Mr. Vu and making him call out:—"I am a man of no country "Look at the result of being an agent for an American company "Come and see the foreigners' slave!" This time, the Governor was perfectly accurate and it was 4.30 p.m. when the instructed' Mr. Vu was released, with the back of his legs all raw and a swollen face, and the poor fellow was sent off to the Hunan Yale Hospital.
The consul, together with the commanding officer of the American gun-boat, then called on Governor Chao. I have known no one more eager than Myr. Meinhardt, the U.S. Consul, to cultivate, not merely strictly upright relations, but those of genuine friendship between China and another country. Gen. Chao, on December 15, assured the consul how concerned he was at what-had happened and promised to remedy the wrong as soon as he had the report on an investigation which he would make. Fifteen-days have now passed, but nothing further has been heard—or seems likely to be heard.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.