Whatever may be General Hsieh Yo's qualifications for his present Job, he is, from all accounts, a bully of the first order, and by his methods pirated a conflict with the British authorities, for which he is probably by this time not all proud of himself. On the afternoon of the 7th he appeared with Several armed guards in the E. P. Mission Hospital, to which a large number of his wounded officers and! men hid been brought for treatment, He called for the head Chinese as. sistant, and complained to him that then peaceful. But there is little doubt that bu: for the action taken there would have been a deliberate attempt by the military to take lover the hospital. Certainly the Chinese staff would not have dared to remain; if it had been attempt-Jed to close the hospital the soldiers would have refused to go, and the military would have entered into The utter unreasonableness of the General's action.gave the Mission Jand the Consul a strong case, which [the Chinese seem to have recognized; Hfor the complete absence of any Jattempt to stir up ill-feeling has been very notable. With them after} jolt the hospital's record of service has weighed more than the tantrums this overgrown schoolboy generfal, He seems to be a very ill-tempered brat indeed, He came that afternoon to the Mission hospital direct from a large Chinese hospital, also full of his wounded, where he!
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