Wochang, Oct, 8
The indications of anti-foreign fooling in the streets of Wuchang seam to be even worse now than] they wore a few weeks ago.
impossible now for a foreigner to proceed through the city in riesha without. passing through fusillade of shouts, the favourite phrases being "Yang Poh'tsi" and "Yang ren pa yang chien" (foreigner pay foreign money). Although these insulting shouts are mainly on the part of the children, they are a certain indication of what the children have been taught by their elders. But sometimes there is worse than mere shouting. Stones have been thrown lately in several cases, Sometimes, when Indies or children are passing in rieshas, coolies with dirty hands will reach out to touch and handle th rms and faces. Even spitting now and again indulged in.
Another annoyance is, that irected passing in or out through the city fate, every foreigner is required to produce a visiting card, Sometimes two cards are demanded, one for the police and a second for the military, If one happens to have forgotten one's cards, the riesha is held up while one writes one's name on a piece of paper. Further, one ha: to submit to being escorted throug] the city from the gate to one's home by a soldier. This neces-sitares either the hiring of a second ricsha, or else slow progress at a walking pace in order that the! escort may be able to keep up. It would not be so bad if this escort were any protection from the insults of the populace; but on the contrary, the presence of the soldier only serves to attract attention, the Chinese can possibly ing themselves a civilized nation, when foreigners are subjected to such organized annoyance, on the part of both officials and people. If they really wish to establish their claims to equality, and equal rights with other peoples, they should take care to behave in such a manner as will win them the respect instead of the contempt of other nations.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.