The rising in the Shikson district of Kuchou in Kuangtung is said to have been quelled, by the dispersal of the insurgents, who fled to the mountains on the approach of the Imperial troops..In the Lokcheng district, however, a new outbreak has been caused by some hundreds of Hunan soldiers, who were being sent back to their province junks, landing there and raising a disturbance. They plundered the people and
order. 'The local magistrate turned' out began to, commit other, crimes against his military policemen, who attacked the Hunan soldiers, and soon dispersed them, as
disbanded, not, however, before upwards of they had been deprived of their arm wien twenty had been shot dead, Hongkong, 15th May.
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