June THE keenest regret must be felt that the Chinese mass meeting called for Sunday to protest against the Lincheng outrage and to strengthen the hands of the authorities in their action against the bandits should have had so little success. True one' Chinese paper has reported that three thousand people were present, but this is a very bold and bad exaggeration, though none the less customary. An independent estimate gives the number as three hundred, and we need pay no attention to our vernacular contemporary's greater figure, for this is part and parcel of a policy which many Chinese publicists pursue. It recalls' one interesting incident during the time when agitators from the south were endeavouring to bring about a strike of seamen here, Actually it was then reported that two or three hundred enthusiasts attended a meeting when the fact of the matter was that a bare dozen of the committee of agitation participated. So try as we may, we shall not be able to con-
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