November 11th.—Selengo, Military Governor of Th, presents a Memorial giving an account of the summary execution of certain soldiers in his province. In a previous Memorial he reported that there had nearly been a general revolt of the troops under his orders arising out of a demand and he attributed the trouble to mem-hoy put forward, for an increase of pay, bers of illegal societies concealed among the soldiers. He therefure gave stringent orders to the commanders of battalions to discover the disturbers of the peace and arrest them immediately, while he at the same time issued private instructions of a similar nature to certain officers in whom he could confide. The result was that three men, two private soldiers and a! Pelty ollieer, were put under arrest. wing tried they were all convicted either of In section 9, which never had any fascine work, the foreshore has all fallen away, land the embankment is not over broad. In section 10, which is at the exact spot where a gap was once made and closed in \former days, there used to be a line of fascines, but it having been left untouched of late years for want of money, the stuff has long rotted and has nearly all been washed away. What remains of the whole fabric is only seventy or eighty feet wide, and the earth of which it is composed is loose and sandy. With the recurrence of the old trouble the fascines have sunk, and cracks have appeared in the body of the embankment, parts of which are constantly dropping. The danger was so imminent that the Menorialist felt constrained to visit the place more than once, in spite of the many matters which required his attention at Cheng Chow. Acting under his orders, the elficers in charge at Jung-tse attempting to excite a revolt, or of unlawful societies and disturbing the minds 8 have laboured continuously for more than of their fellow soldiers. For these unpardon-twenty days and nights, throwing in heaps able offences they were condemned to death, of stens, affixing fascines or widening the and their sentence was carried into effect embankment, as might seem best at each without delay, the result being the restora-int. The peril is still such that the memorialist has commanded them to contion of tranquillity and order throughout the troops. Also, some time previously, the tinue to employ their most strenuous Memorialist was informed by the Governor efforts. of Turkestan of the escape of an important In reply to this Memorial an autograph criminal who had been concerned in a con-rescript states that on the 26th of October spiracy at Urumtsi, his man the Memo-the Emperor received a report by telegraph rialist contrived to arrest, and convinei! of the state of affairs at Jung-tse, and in evidence having been produced of his consequence he ordered that an enquiry he was condenined and executed as a wal should be sent asking whether any waters ing toothers. Two discharged soldiers were were escaping from the river there; but he has not yet received a further telegram in taken at the same time, and though they were not found to have participated in the reply. He desires that the utmost efforts conspiracy, they were sentenced to be flog-be made and the place rendered perfectly god severely for maintaining constant inter-secure. course with criminals, and then to be kept
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