To the Editor of the "Nowru-Cuina Daty News."
Sik,—The following recital a fords' an interesting comparison. I suppress all names but am personally acquainted with all the details, 'A missionary and his\ wife live ing in an inland city in Mid-China were suddenly and savagely attacked by a mob.
The mob seemed at first to bs one of curiosity and not unfriend-suddenly it changed and became a mob of howling maniacs They cursed the devoted—for eigner and his wife, spat upon them: and rent the air with their cries "Kill the foreign devils."
They then proceeded to blows and kicked and severely beat both the man and his lady and tore almost all their clothes off them till the man was left with only one garment on his body.
They tried to make their way to the Hsien's yamen but that official closed and barred his doors 90 the foreigners could not possibly ave access to his shelter for, said he did not want his yamen In a most brutal way he literally threw these inoffensive persons to the ravening wolves. They made their way to the river and were thrust into a boat, The ferryman Was ordered to put them the other side of the river which was within the bounds of another Hsien and was threatened with death if ho dared to bring them back.
The poor foreigners were left waif dead, wounded and bruised and nearly naked and penniless to find their way to the nearest port, near~ ly a hundred miles away.
Tt was a tropic midsummer and they had no hats to protect their heads from the pitiless sun.
After many privations and dangers Yhey reached the port to find the Consul had already received a report from the Governor of the Province, The despatch stated that the Hsien had reported the riot and that he had at once gone to the foreigners' rescue with all the military forces at his command and had sent them away on a boat with adequate escort for protection.
These atrocious Mes were deliberately sent by the officials who all new the real facts.
These events took place 30 yonra Jago but they might have occurred to-day. The events of the past few months and the blatant lies reported by Chinese officials from the Towest to the highest in Peking are exactly the same.
The Chinese have not improved one iota—they are only setter, formed but are as utterly unroll able as of yore.
They are as completely unfit to, Protect and administer justice to, fas they were 30, nay 100 years aga, men of western and lih tahds Te would be an unspeakable erie, to this people. as well as to our. selves. to consider seriously for single moment the abolition extrality until the Chinese: hav Ated themselves by a more advance, sess, civilization than they now pos~ Tam, ete, a Inland, Oct. 19, 1925, a
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