UNEMPLOYED soldiers, Owing to the number of discharged soldiers having rapidly increased from the time of the Franco-Chinese war, there is quite a large army of them now in Foochow, The authorities €o not regard thi ever increasing army of unemployed braves as being favourable to the pence and good order. of the place, and they are now trying to got rid of them. The Sveretary of the military affairs of the province hi issued a proclamation enjoining upon this class of inhabitants to depart from the place, and monetary assistance has been promised them so that those who have nut the means to pay for their passage, may be provined with the necessary fu
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