Brigandage is usually more or less rife in the interior of both the Kuang provinces, the people of many districts being of a very unruly character, but just at present there is a rather extensive insurrection in the district of Shiksou, Kuchen prefecture. The rebels are said to number upwards of ten thousand, and they terrorise the whole district, compelling the well-to-do. inhabitants to supply their wants, on pain being plundered wholesale. Many families have moved to Canton for security, and the Government are tardily sending troops to quell the movement. At the same time robberies on a large scale are being pertrated by large armed bands in the famboi district. In one case the robbers got off with booty to the value of some: $10,000 after fatally wounding a policeman.
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