Some of the foreigners resident in this district complain of the increasing use of the epithet "Yang Kuei-tzu" on the part of children and older people in the city, but more particularly in the suburbs. In one of the villages where Mohammedan influence predominates, this term has been flung at foreigners quite freely during the past few months, and, it was thought, with opprobrious implication. One family had been so annoyed that a culprit was - seized and led off to the yamen, where the magistrate gave him a good sound warning and then sent notices ta the villages concerned, ordering them immediately to discontinue such practices and especially to see that children refrained from calling out after foreigners. Perhaps it is nothing more than
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