We received a visit yesterday afternoon from Major-General Huang Tao, one of the Anhui delegates who has been sent down here by the Tuchun to contradict the report of the attack by soldiers on the sericultural school girls at Anking. General Huang tells us that his wife is one of teachers in the school and his daughter is one of the pupils, and he assures us that there is not one word of truth in the story of the assault. Such an assurance, 0 supported, we certainly should not think of ' rejecting and the only comment we would make is that is a pity General Huang did not come to see us earlier, or ment the basis of his clementi in w As regards our correspondent at Anking, we would emphasize once again that he only reported the rumour og such and would probably not have done that but for the extraordinary circulation obtained and the circumstantial nature of it. We are in no way "going back" on him in accepting General Huang's statement, which we are sure he would accept himself. The prevalence of the rumour our visitor attributes to jealousy felt in Anking for the school, whicn he says is a private very successful affair, and run by people from another province.
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