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Show 5. Dear Rowland, ANOTH3R BULLETIN:- Day before yesterday, the dayafter the famous night, the chief of the constabulary told Dr. Hsu that hereafter whenever a man or woman came to the Hospita with a gunshot wouiid, the patient's name and address must be reported to him, and the man furnish a guarantor of his respectibility. In the course of a few hours a friend and relative of Mr. Yuan's, the Chinese language teacher in the Boys' School, was brot to the Hospital with an accidentally self-inflicted wound of the leg. Yes-. terday we wrotea letter to the chief of the constabulary but did not get around to sending it until this morning. This morning another case of similiar origin ©ame in, this time with a wound of the left hand. 3© we wrote another letter, about the second patient, and put the two letters into one envelope and sent them on. Dr. Hsu and I felt very much upset about the rules when the officer laid them down, but we felt there was nothing we could do, since the officer felt that such a rule was the only waya to catch disorderly peop2£ coming to the Hospital. Dr. Hsu said that any quibbling on our part about the rules would cause the constabulary to quit all connection with protect tion of Dr. Hsu and the Compound. Te thot that reporting these two cases would be a good way to start, for surely nothing would come of it, so sura were we that only routine procedures would be taken. T§ even hoped that the official would get sick of constant reports of cases which had no relation to bandits that he would change his tactics. At noon an under-officer came to arrest the two patients. The man with the wound of the hand was taken away and the man with the leg, «f who I said could not walk, had guards put over hiii, armed with executioner s swords and rifles. The officer said that Mr. Yuan had been arrested In a few minutes *r. Yuan came around and I toll him that I had heard that he was in trouble, and he became very much excited indeed. Shih Mu 3hiV\ was along, and hevoiced the opinion that the Hospital could not keep open under such rules. So he called a meeting of the Station Executive Committee for this afternoon. He had no more than written the notice for the meeting, when the constabulary came to arrest ^r. Yuan. Dr. Hsu, Principal Shih of the Boys' School, and I went down to the constabulary office and saw the chief and explained everything, so that he finally consented not to confine *r. Yuan. Then we came back for the committee meeting. The meeting lasted about two hours. It would take a long time to detail all that happened . It was the opinion of everyone that continuing to obey the rules of the constabulary chief would serve to antagonize everyone to the Hospital, seeing that two apparently innocent people had already gotten into serious trouble on account of it. On the other i hand a refusal to comply with the rules would look as if we were unwilling to cooperate with the authorities in supressing banditry. Dr. Hsu, in hiS present condition, did not want to get the officials mad. Shih Mu Shih was at his best, with vigorous declarations that the Christian character and motive of the Hospital eould not be carried out if we make any distinction as to the character of the sick people: that they must all be treated alike, considering only their physical conditions, without regard for their private morals. He emphasized too that the present good name of the Hospital came entirely from its equal and good treatment of everyone. He said that as far as he was concerned he would rather have the Hospital close than to follow this rule. Everyone seemed to think that to follow this rule as it was and as it had worked out in thesdeases would |