The Indignation Meeting at Hankow: A Question in Which the Whole Prestige and Safety of Foreigners Are at Stake Hankow, Nov 15.
The following is the text of the speeches by Mr. A. E. Marker, the {Chairman, of the International Chamber of Commerce, and of Mr. Larsen, of the Lutheran mission, at the meeting of the foreign residents of Hankow to protest against the bandit outrages in Honan, Mr. Marker said:—In rising to propose the resolution on the agenda, I need only refer very briefly to the circumistances which induced the signatories to the letter which has appear-en in the Press to summon this meeting, especially as you have already heard a full description of levants in Honan from Mr. Larsen.
will suffice me to say that these recent happenings are but a culmination of a long series of similar attacks on foreign life and property jover a number of years, but they have this time possibly been brought clear home to us inevitably both on account of the propinquity of the district where these events have occurred and the unprecedented daring of the men who carried them out.
Yow are no doubt aware that most, if not all, of the foreign Chambers of Commerce throughout China have occupied themselves with the general question of disorder in China for a number of years. They have passed strong re-fom bad to worse. Last year's looting and burning of Wuchans and Ichang are known to you all but the heavy losses which are constantly being suffered, both by missionaries and by the agents of foreign firms in the interior, are less well known, and few of us probably realize how heavy these losses are.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.