I need add only a few comments on this astonishing document. The arrest of these two men was made on September 4. Their statements concerning the: r short sta; Mission Chapel on the: Hsi-ch'ang-{kai are correct. On September ved from them by the Chinese lay treasurer of the church with which they had been so slightly connected—they were merely studying the phonetic script and were not baptized members of the church—saying that they had {been tortured so that they were "nine parts dead and only one part alive.' On September 7 the missionary called on the Governor and asked for some explanation of the visit of spies to the church and; the mixing up of the name of the church with political plots which the missionary alleged were wholly imaginary.
A week or 10 days later. a further communication was received from the two men who' were stil] prisoners, saying that the case against them had collapsed and that if they could get bail, they might be sot
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