Liu K'un-i, the director of the Grain transport and the Governor of Kiangsu present a joint memorial reporting the successful repression of certain brigands who of late have been carrying on a system of armed warfare on a small-scale against the constituted authorities in the Hsiichou, Such'ien and Prichou districts. These miscreants used to go about in bands numbering from ten up to a hundred med with foreign firearms and were noted for the rapidity and uncertainty of the) movements. A great point in their favour was the great fields of kaoliang (high millet) with which the district is thickly uted and which afforded them most ble ever. Memorialists have great pleasure in reporting that the authorities together with the officers in command of the local troops have been successful in their operations against them and that they have either killed or taken the ringleaders and thoroughly dispersed the remainder of the bands. They conclude by asking recls for those Who more especially disished themselves.
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