Nov. 6.
Tue announcement that the} railway station has been evacuated by the foreign guard will, we are! convinced, be received with general approval by the foreign community. In the excitement of Friday afternoon and evening and in the uncertainty prevailing as to the strength and leadership of the revolutionary the occupation of the railway headquarters was a necessity, in the interests of order and for the defence cof valuable property, and, indeed, was recognized as such by the insurgent leaders. But to leave the foreign volunteers outside settlement limits for one moment beyond the time at which the re-ionones had convinced the authorities of their ity to maintain order, would have been not only an offence to local Chinese! feeling, but a serious breach of neutrality, for which ample reparation would have had to be giv We write the more emphatically because a suspicion has been aroused in some quarters that the guarding of the railway station was but the thin end of the wedge towards the total occupation of Chapei, and that the extension of settlement limits which we have hitherto failed to obtain by fair
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