| Show r lISI Well rM Tur I Trouble April Chinese In large numbers ore are report that troops 10 in the province yf SI province of Chi ChiLI ChiL the thu frontier ran of the ter LI AV ll Informed natives S prophesy L further trouble It I U I Impossible to as ascertain ni certain whether tho court Is playing a n double game or Its authority Is Is clent to prevent the Chinese M generals cent likely to provoke acting In n manner hostilities 1 The fhe fact that for or many lany In th months there haH been bren nothing shape of a de facto government favors te the latter hypothesis Iller a great deal will wl depend 1 upon tho In Inflicting n severe severo defeat upon the Chi Chine neno ne o who wll havo transgressed the agree agreement agrEement ment by entering Into the sphere of the allies If there offenders ore arc thor thoro aliel punished I It Is likely 1 ely to produce a n good effect A missionary named mie Rev O Mr Presbyterian missionary has returned eley ll from frol where were burned bl EI to death Ileath In December Mr wee reports to Gen Chafee that some sometime mie time ago several of his converts were killed klel He 10 had the persons tried In tho Chinese courts where they were convicted 11 sentenced to death sub subJect to U Hung signature Mr Ir mie came to ln U 11 Hung Chang ChanK who said 1011 the men len should he be executed Immediately Upon going to three weeks later the tho mission missionary ary found the tho men alive alYe He spoke to toa ton a n Judge of the Chinese Chinse courts on the matter who thereupon n showed showell him a n aletter letter from U J Hung Ph 11 g giving Im Implicit letor instructions that the men must not be executed n aa they had only been be convicted on the testimony of Chris Christians consequently the evidence I Mr Ir Ille has hM a 0 copy col I of this letter leter In the meantime the French hOlt had I proved provell tho same men guilty of and other outrages de demanded demanded their execution whereupon the Judge showed his orders from M 11 Hum HUIK hang Chang Tho French authorities replied not executed If It the men were within eight days they would take the I Ilaw law Into their own hands and punish the Chinese officials likewise I |
