The Archive · 1912

The Honan Assembly Outrage

CULPRITS STILL AT LARGE

Kaifeng, Sept. 12. It is difficult to find out the cause of the recent attack on the Assem bly here, The only suggestion is, that the question under discussion in Parliament, at the time, was the most peaceful method of disbanding the soldiers and some of them probably thought well to put an end to the discussion. Several men have been arrested, but the real culprits' have not been traced.

Wo hear that the Chinese have been crowing over the western surgeons because their own doctors, by using some charm, were able to extract bullets from the wounded men, where & western-trained man had failed. But in one case at any rate, where the bullet was said to have been extracted, the patient, on examination under X-rays, in Peking,

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