The Archive · 1893

The Former Formosa Governor

A report is in circulation to the affect that BLE. Liu, the former Governor of Formosa, has lately been receiving repeated Jcommuniertions from the capital. The import of these messages is said to have reference to the recoil of the veteran soldier to active service, CAPTURE OF ROBBERS, A military official at Peking recently made an important seizure. He captured three notorious brigands, each of whom can boast of a long record of crime, It appeara that the bandits were planning a robbery from a certain house, und fell into the soldiers' hands before they could carry out their design. After the preliminary ox-amination the prisoners were sent to the chief of the Peking gendarmerie. It is expected that the criminals: will: not be leniently dealt with

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