The sinister aspect of the- aff is the attitude of the Red Arm This has organized societies withi which take an active part in the _poli tical and religious questions which Jcome up, and which both in Swatow end in Chacchowfu has sent repressentatives to the preliminary meet jiggs, and sent soldiers with anti-Christian placards fixed to bayonets to take part in the process sions, The consequence is that atip time when no official can act except in accord with the will of the mil tary, and when law is in abeyance, there is no effective appeal for pro: tection, Every ease that arises misrepresented as due to the provocations of the Christians. Even it the case described the venue of the meeting has been given wrongly as nothing is said of the entrance church premises, but a group Christians is described as _haviag attacked a meeting outside the precincts of the church altogether, and} to have invited the retaliation which was made on them.—What, is to be feared now is the determined attempt of the soldiers and students to fasten a quarrel on the church, with a view to attacking and sac ing it. There is a report, I hope without foundation, that when the case was reported to a prominent military official he expressed every sympathy with the anti-Christians, adding ominously "There has been no blood spilt yet." We trust it will not come to that, but a Russianized army cannot be expected to want to stop short of it.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.