Fang Ju-yi, an officer of the premier button, Provincial Treasurer and Actin, Governor of Kiangsi, in a postscript memorial gives a rewend of the trials and sentences of certain members of the Kolao Hui in Kiangsi, and asks that rewards should be granted to certain officials who had distinguished themselves in bringing to justice the remaining members of the late insurrection in the province. In some former memorials by the then Governor of Kiangsi, Té Hsing, the Throne had already been made aware of the fact that in the month of September of last year, certain Kolao Hui members of this province being joined by emissaries from Hunan had raised the standard of revolt in the district of Pinghsiang, belonging to the prefecture of Yuanchow, and that T¢ Hsing had sent both military and naval forces against the insurgents, and had succeeded in crushing and arresting the principal leaders of the insurrection. Fearing, however, notwithstanding this, that the insurrection had not, entirely been eradicated, Ta Hsing gave repeated and strict injunctions to his subordinates not to neglect any opportunity of exercising the utmost vigilance in rooting out the seeds of. what might after all prove a serious outbreak in the province, This was fortunate, for on the Lith of February Inst, the following report was received from Chou Hao, Intendant of the Chi-Nan-Hou-Ning Circuit to the effect that he, assisted by the Chehsien of Hao-chow, Wu Chung-chien, then acting pro tem. as prefect of Havchow, having heard that members of the' Kolao dui were distributing tickets of membership to the people living in the Haonan and Chian Aiseticts with intent to gather a body of men for the purpose of creating mischief, he, Chou Hao, had immediately sent a confidential deputy at the head of his body guard with instructions to get together the civil and military authorities of the vicinity and set about at once to capture or disperse the band of mal tents. The deputy succeeded in arresting two chiefs, Lu Sit-hung and Li Lao-peh while the acting prefect of Haochoufu, Wu Chung-chien, guided by spies managed to arrest another chief, Tang Hung-tsai, and unearthed a lot of cloth membership tickets, weapons and firearms, the property of the society, The said T'ang Hung-tsai has confessed at his examination that he had been enticed into joining the society by a man named Chou Min-reaal, and had been made by him chief leader of all the country comprised within the Haonan district, with the title of Fulwugt'ow or "Assistant Dragon's-head." Furihormore that the new assistants Lu Siu-hung and Li Lao-peh, captured by the deputy before mentioned had been appointed to be "un. connected" or "roving" chiefs of the country comprised within the Tungmu and Lake Ké district, with power to increase the number of the society by distributing cloth tickets of membership to anyone who could be induced to join the Kolao Hui. The said 'T'ang Hung-tsai, acting under orders from the still at large Chou Mou-kuei, had notified the other two new leaders Lu Siu-hung and Li Lao-peh, to be ready with arms and men on the 16th of February last, so that they might enter the city of Hoochow that night and be ready to capture it on the following day (Chinese New Year's day). The above confession having been sworn to by the said T'ang Hung-tsai and the said Lu Siu-hung and Li Lao-peh, the Governor, Té Hsing, being of the opinion that these men's crimes were such as to be unpardonable, gave orders that the three men above-mentioned should be forthwith executed at the market place of the city which they had attempted to take and make the basis of their insurrection, Again, the chehsien of P'inghsianghsien, Ku Chia-siang, having reported that he had
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