Transport, and the Governor of Kiangsu submit a joint Memorial reporting the eapture and sentence of one Pao Kunn-tung, who was a leading spirit in an insurectionary movement organised for purposes of plunder. The other leader, Chu Ching-vii, who was captured and beheaded last sar, had given evidence of Pao Kuan-Uung's connection with the confeder and the authorities had since been taking active measures to effect his arrest. Early in the present year it was discovered that he and his gang were lurking in the Hai Chou District, and the military havi been put in motion, he was hemmed in and captured on the borderland between Haichou and Yen-cheng. The man stated that he had become acquainted with Chu in 1883: that the latter had a ing of 70 ur 80 men, while his own band only numbered about a dozen, The two parties had each its own tract of coun-tay, and were distinguished by their headdress, his men wearing blue turbans and Chu's party white turbans, After the arrest of Chin, he had taken over some of the man's followers, and continued to pursue his career of brigandage. The Memorialists consider that the case is one which falls within the category of offences for which summary execution was sanctioned in 1883 by the Board of Punishments, and sentence has been passed accurdingl
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