Owing to the fear of a Kolao Hui rising BLE. Shen Ping-ch'én, the Governor of Anhui, raised in the winter of 1891 a Governor's bodyguard of 200 picked men and and a "yamen guard" of two ba%talions of five hundred men each. This extra drain on the revenues of the province has now become a matter of such gravity to the provincial exchequer. that by an order recently promulgated by that official these troops are to be disbandd with two months' extra pay and passage money to their homes in Kiangpeh, and a dollar exch to be drawn on the Kiangpeh likin office if the disbanded "braves" arrive there within a specified time,
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