Phe horde of famine-stricken people from Kiangpeh who arrived at Sungkiang this winter have been committing all sorts of excesses. They.go about the country asking charity from the people, who are greatly annoyed by their demands, as they take no refusal and often assume a threatening attitude. In a recent case, these fugitives committed violence upon a young woman, who died from the result of the attack, As the fugitives were {; The Chinese Consul at Singapore has found out that a class of females have bee in the habit of carrying on an infamous trafic, They go to the orphanages at Canton and carry off young girls with them, whom they claim as their daughters, Having taken them from these institut they ship the poor creatures to the Stra Settlements where they are sold toa life of shame, The authorities to whom the Consul addressed the report, have giv: strict injunctions to the chiefs of these Benevolent Halls to put in force stringent regulations about letting their young protegees out of their hands, with a view of defeating the designs of these women.
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