Ningpo seems to be productive of] more than one story, and this second is too good not' to go with the first, though of a very different type. The students there were enthusiastic boycotters of anything British, and picketed British shipping in the most assiduous manner. But at last retribution seemed to have arrived in the presence of a Fengtien flotilla in the bay. Ching. hai, the place at the mouth of the iver where the old mud-forts are, was expecting to be bombarded, and these patriots thereupon proceeded to a foreign school, and quietly took refuge in the compound. Morning]
and when the foreign mis-jon ary in charge awoke it was to see the British flag hoisted, and crowds of students present. He asked the reason for the hoisting} of the flag on an unwonted occasion, und was told candidly by the invaders of his compound that as the ygtien army was about to land they preferred to have the protec-of a "proper flag." We believe that certain remarks on "unequal treaties" were made, and it may be hoped that they went home. Seeing] the state of nerves in which these people find themselves one would not wish to express too severe} opinions, but those who have to deal with questions of tariff autonomy] and extrality would do much worse than to study the inwardness of such incidents as this.
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