To the Editor of the "Nonrm-Omuxa Darcy News,"
Sin,—Your paper this morning states that the nego ming out of the Nanchang massacre have been settled by China agreeing to three of the French demands. (1) That it be acknowledged that the Magistrate committed suicide and was not mu the Priest. (2) An indemnity to be paid for property destroyed. (3) The guilty gentry to be have followed with grea from day to day the record of thie o not only as it appeared in your valuable paper bub also in your native contem-Porsries, and I confess to a feeling of admiration for the French Diplomatic Agent who has had charge of the difficult negotiations at Nanchangtu, He has had a dificult task to accomish, It is now clear to all the world Magistrate stabbed himself i order to intimidate the French Fathers into accepting his proposals, and that the ensuing massacre was deliberately planned by the gentry, with the condi ance, if not at the instigation. of the high officials. But these points were by no means ensy to establish, The people of Nanchang knew that the only shadow of an excuse they could possibly obtain for their atrocious conduct depended on their being able to convince the Consuls ut to investigate the case that the trate had been freach by the Priost Lacruch the Governor down to his moanest ined every effort ty too notorious for these high officials to stoop to.
Magistrate Chiang your readers will Ju sonneotion with the suicide of the remember that the American boycott ras initiated Ly the suicide of a student named Fung Wsia-wei, xnd that the exodus of Chinese students from Japan commenced in the same way, One of their number committed suicide to draw attention to the supposed wrong of his fellows, The very valuable and unbiassed ro-port of the surgeon of H.M.8. Snipe published in your columns throws a lurid light on the whole case. Ao. cording to that report the first self. inflicted wound of the Magistrate was by no means a mortal one. Who gave the succeeding stabs and when they wore given we shall probably loam one day. "Rascals always fall out among themselves sooner or later and then the truth at the bottom of the well comes to light. It will be interesting to ku: whether the Magistrate comploted the task of self destruction "by order" or
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