Conditions Never Worse: Indifference of Chinese to Treaty Rights Poking, June 28.
'A letter received in Peking from 8 foreigner holding a responsible. position in Foochow gives a gloomy. account of conditions in the province lof Fukien. He states that encroach-
[ment upon and indifference towards the treaty rights of foreigners in that region are becoming more and more evident apd, from the point of view of foreigners, the situation has never been so bad as it is now.
Quoting instances, the writer refers to the continued searching of foreigners and foreign launches by the naval and military authorities, despite Consular protests, and an outrageous attack made upon Mr.
Poletti, Postal Commissioner for Fukien, by some of Gen. Chow Yin-Jen's soldiers, on the Min River not far from Foochow, on June 15. Missionaries making their way from Shaown to Foochow were fired upon. four times by troops on the bank of the river, and the likin station in Foochow has seized foreign goods, which the local Consular body had, at the time of writing, still been unable to get released.—Reuter's Pacific, Service.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.