CO129-300 - Administrator Major Gen Gascoigne Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [7-9] — Page 477

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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.