Of all the disgraceful scenes to which the present outburst of anti foreignism has given rise, nothing ie-more abominable than the attacks on hospitals sud as our Hangchow correspondent describes to-day. The [C. M. 8. Hospital in Hangchow ts famous throughout Citra." It'exista solely for the benefit of the Chinese. Foreigners who work in it do without permission. largely for the love of their work and for the direct benefit of China, Their remuneration is probably a quarter of what they could make under far less exacting conditions in the ordinary pursuit of their profession. During its existence the hospital must have attended to hundreds of thousands of sick and injured Chinese and it must have turned out hundreds of well trained Chinese medical students to carry fon the good work among their fellow countrymen. And it is such an institution as this which Chinese agitator-students select for the disgusting exhibition of their perverted nature; and the only crime which they could urge against the two men whom they paraded through the street, pelting them with stones and melon skins, was that they remained faithful to their work of tending sick Chinese, There are certain episodes in the past nine weeks which will never be for gotten: the prevention by Chinese agitators of the C. M. S. Kiangshun from going to the rescue of the Loongwo in distress; the diabolical device of the Cantonese Reds of putting school girls in the process sion on June 23 with the intention of saying afterwards that the foreigner had fired upon women; but perhaps the outrages committed against Mission hospitals (for that at Hangchow is not the only one recorded) are worst of all. In such cases the mob injure only their own of Low indeed has the ancient of this country fallen when such creatures can be permitted to continue in their evil way une protested, "Foreign Cargoes Inspection"
Two correspondents are good enough to send us the circular re-Produced below. It comes from the Shanghai Commercial Publishing Ca,, 900 Lung Meng Road, and the imprint gives the names of H, Ning and H. Koo as chief editor and business manager respectively. Thin what the circular says:—
BEAR, Simuc$We have pearce ten.
Took called "Foreign. Carocs. Me You that We tre going to: publi Spection List" it contains various kin of foreign enrgocs ax well the penalty et merenaraies the needs of the interior merchants' on are especially published 10 ult recount of the inland dealers presenta iythey zo antiliritish and Japanese curgces, "This" book "tobe" printed in Entire Chinese characters and number copies iv fixed for 5.000 and prive of which ly only charged tobe. suflcient cover the cost of paper materials.
We shall be obliged if you are going. fe. 1K A space in the sai ok, the best" pelted. for making your sal cing. straightforward without a lea hinderance For inst the par. tieulars'in'Engllsh and. we cun have rotated Uy our Tranatgre, ige er, quarter page Tls. 10, hal Tier 20, full pose Te. 33, Sine of foring t6 receive your favourable We are, ete The most curious part is that the recipients are foreign firms, although the intention of the circular is unmistakable. We do not know where Lung Meng Road is; but it was shown recently in these columns that the promotion of strikes and boycott is absolutely legal under the Chinese code and the attention of the authorities—whether 8. M. C. police or General Shing's men—may be directed to the activities going fon at No, 900.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.