(8) Court Circular.—The Imperial Board of Astronomy has submitted a diagram of the approaching eclipse of the moun, BURGLARY IN KIANGSU, (4) The Governor of Kiangsu reports a series of robberies with violence committed by disbanded soldiers, The first cuse oocurred in the Chiangtu district in February last year. A man's house was broken into and pillaged and his wife seriously injured. The magistrate put himself in communica tion with the military authorities and succeeded in arresting four of the depredators, all of whom were decapitated under the regulations applicable to the case of rob: beries by mounted brigands or confederate gangs of discharged soldiers, The Ch'ing-p't district was next the scene of precisely similar depredations. The nature of the country, which is a network of creeks, facil-irated the movements of the robbers, who travelled about in boats in which' they carried their plunder, The leading spirit of the enterprise was one Liu Kuo: who, when wanted by the authorities, refuge in the foreign Settlement at Shanghai. He and some of his followers were eventually arrested and suffered the death sentence. Several of the band who were n charge of the boats and had taken no active part in the commission of crime, were sentenced to various forms of banish: ment.
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