The insurrection described in the Gazette of the 4th of June is not. the only one with which the Province of Kuangsi was troubled in the spring of this year. In to-day's Gazette the Governor describes two more affairs, the latter of which looks like.a very serious attempt at deliberate rebellion, though fortunately for the country it was nipped in the bud. In the middle of last winter the magistrate of Shanglin reported that a man named Mo 'Tzu-hsien had collected a band of brigands and was robbing travellers on the' high roads near the market town of Lankan. Tt was afterwards made known to the magistrate that Mo Tuli-hsien had formed a secret society at a place called Kuping.: Before the troops sent could reach Kuping, in the middle of January Mo Tzi-hsien, collected his men, and after swearing: them with blood and wine he attacked: and plundered a neighbouring village. The troops hurried up, the brigands met them and began firing, but "were repulsed with the loss of two killed and five taken, durk-
next news of Mo Tvii-hsien was that he ness preventing prolonged pursuit he had occupied a house in the.thick woods, with precipices in the rear; he had pierced Joop-holes inthe walls and erected a stage in front. 'The people of the neighbour-, hood were fleeing in alarm. The magistrate got together as quietly as possible, a number of troops and militia, After endeavouring to induce the brigand' followers to surrender. themselves, he, occupied the adjacent, passes and then ordered an attack: to. be made upon the house on all sides. This went on for a day and a half, when the brigands burst oub'of the back door and fled. They were closely pursued and three were taken, the rest, some, scores in number, escaping' into the cliffs: of the Nungchih Hills. The Prigands rolling down stance and throwing pursuit was kept up by torchlight, the
grenades from above. An attack upon the rear of the soldiers' by twenty brigands was repulsed with loss; and at last. Tzit-hsien himself and a dozen others were captured, Next day a search among the rocks discovered several more, bringing the total number of prisoners up to twenty-six. Atthe same time many weapons and flags were taken,. The soldiers had eleven. of their number wounded, Before the above proceedings were terminated, another and more serious affair occurred. In the month of February the magistrate of Pinchou heard that a
and singing.hymns,. issuing preton number of men in his district wore fstin, cominlaetoos, cnrolligg followers, and mak ing flags and uniforms. The military officers were.desired.to act, and they arrested a, prisoner with a document purporting to be a rebel commission. 'The prisoner, Huang. I-feng, was taken' into the town and examined. He said that the commission was given' him by one Nung Fu-kuo, who desired him to raise five hundred men and have them ready to act on a certain day. Nung Fu-kuo kept moving about secretly from place to lace. The poay. called itself the Lung-na Hui, it had—many adherents in Shanglin, Wuyuan, 'Hsuanhua and other districts round. They had agreed to effect a rising together, while they pretended that they were enlisting men: to gu and attack the barbarians beyond the frontier.' The magistrates of these' districts being thus put on the. alert,: several of them discovered traces of. the. society and Mo Tzu-hsien, whose. capture.-has already been narrated, confessed to the
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