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To have now found out how it came that the situation changed
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so suddenly. Ten days ago all the people were quietly engaged
in the ingathering of their rice crop, now they have plenty of
time to talk & hear all the wild rumours that are afloat. Lately,
a lot of the natives of the large villages near Shamchun
retanned from Tientsin where they have been engaged as Railwaymą
b. They brought the Boxers placards from the North & are
telling the people how things are going on in the North. They
do not spealt of the 111-treatment of the Cantonose by the
Forthern Chinese & Manchus: but only tell how the allies
entored Tientsin, how they (the Russians) killed there everyDOL
with a queue & did not even spare wonen & Children. Now all Wes
stories are even by & by telling on the most law-abiding Chik
The anti-foreign foelings are deepening day by day. Never of
the 26 yours I an staying here have those feelings boon so
intensive. The killing or foreigners is how the daily topic
the whole population, Even Chinese children play at killin
foreign devils.