was well planned and most successfully cartied out. As soon as the boat arrived it was surrounded, boarded, the fu himself abused, and the furniture destroyed. The fu, terrified beyond measure, was accused being the cause of the oft-repeated robberies. Expostulation by him was useless; he was eventually rescued and conveyed to a place of safety by the efforts of ten military B.s's who have large business in the town. Immediately couriers were sent to the three hsiens concerned. The chihsien of two were soon in attendance and the third belonging to another Prefecture replied "such assault' was out of his territory being the opposite side of vho river to him." Arrests and heavy squeezes have been made. One literary 3.A., having seen the assault and making no effort to defend his. superiors has received 1,200 blows, lost his degree, and one thousand taels, beside which the chi fu at once sent on the account of the attack and its cause to Wuchangfu with the result that the Asien has been dismissed. The case is not yet settled; it is evidently grand one for the runners and others, Immediately after the attack the rice boats fled, the shops closed, and what was one of the largest business centres on the Fu river now shows no signs of life or trade.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.