with secret orders to utterly exterminate all Mohammedans. Tachienlu is to be connected with Chengtu, the capital of the province, by telegraph. Two months ago word was sent on to the different points along the road to secure the poles required at half-price. The people cry out against the injustice, and one military official in a little city west of Yachou calls the people to retaliate by killing the yang jen Uorsignen)—who happens to be a Chinaman—when he comes to set up the poles.
Troops have been moving to the West in companies ever since the 1st of May. At first they were only going in to force a Manza chief to allow a gold mine to be opened wp in his territory. Later they reported the Mohammedans collecting the wild men in that district.
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