Then th cutting ma has no queue he is likely to los head if he vectures off the foreiga concession, At Changsha, he is qnalified for the Hankow Imperialist butchers by the republican roughs, One of the employees of Messrs, Batterfield and Sire mas sed yesterday an be was passing the city gates and clipped. A straggle was unavailing as there were more than one to bold the hands and the only result to some of the stragglers was a clipped ear as well ae a clipped tail.
Till yesterday, I hed rarely heard a word against the Republicans. The arses on them for their folly were deep and land enough yesterday. Of course no one was made " loyal "Han" by the forcible loss of his queue, Many an enemy has been stirred up by the injaticn, ignominy and idiocy of yee proceed We have been wondering whether this is the form that the present ralers of the city have taken of announcing something upplessant from Hankow. It will not be pleasant to gentlemen who have cat their own fingers or other queues off to hear that there i to be any compromise. The namber of men in From Ow Own Correspondent Changebs, Deo. 14. 1 Assembly hax ro-walked away in their pique and allowed Aheir Hopeh alles to find they were take up the fight as eoon as the Honan they would walk in and gs. The opening troops would leave. undoubtedly pleased the hearer disappoints at least come of ite readers as it appears in the colamos of the Changsha daily. It is commonplace in ides, though the expression of the ideas is worthy of Mr, T'sn's reputation for scholarship. It is somewhat grandiose expression of the war cry: "China, Chi d Oct with the Manchus, use economy sud 80 do without foreign loans. The weakness of the speech lies in its failure to lift the thoughts or ideas of the representatives to any higher level than they were on before the speech. A more parochial provincial council is hardly to be found in China than the Honan Conn-
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