KUANGTUNG, The Viceroy at Canton forwards a report on the working of the system recently adopted for dealing with brigandage in the neighbourhood of Canton, will be remembered that about two years ago the detective work in the Namhoi district was given over entirely to Admiral Fang-yao, who undertook to remodel the whole organisation connected with the preventive service. Shortly after this arrangement received the Imperial approval, the two districts of Hsiangshan and lsinhui asked that the Admiral should also assume criminal jurisdiction over them. A list of bandits captured and dealt with during the 16th year of Kuang Hsii has already been published in the Gazette, and the present report covers only the
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