An edict of the 2ist instant orders the punishments to be meted out to the substantive and acting district Magistrates of Kuyang, Anhui province, who have, it appears, been made the seapexoats of th high provincial authorities of Anhui in their attempt to explain away to the Empress: Dowager the cause of the rebellion now going on in that province.' We have received the memorial of Teng Hua-hsi, Governor of Anhui, giving the results of is enquiry into the causes of the rebellion in his; provinee in which he recommends that punishments he meted out to the local authorities who were in office at the time. Tt seems that Ao Yang-nich, the then district trate of Kuyang, was most reprehensible in not recognising the seriousness and gravity of the situation when Niu-Shih-hsin, the chief rebel, hoisted the standard of rebellion outside the city of Kuyang, in consequence of which the disturbances spread around affecting the neighbouring districts. Then, when the suid muyistrate was removed from his post and Ch'én Fu-yuan, an expectant chihsien, was sent to Kuyang as acting magistrate, this man also lo the fatal mistake of treating the rebellion tov lightly and made no effort to capture the rebel chief, all of which xpes_to expose the utter inewpacity and criminal carelessness of these two oilicials, In punishment thereof we hereby command that the said Ao Yang-nich and the said Ch'in Fa-yuan be forthwith cashiered and dismissed for ever from the public service. Proper and speedy steps must now be taken to putastop toall further rebellion." Reading between the lines of the above edict it appears that the Anhui rebellion is still spreading, in spite of oficial assurance to the contrary,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.