Only about a month ago two robbers who had been holding up people outside the city were beheaded. Some have sought to ex-"plain recent lawlessness and thelt by the Ror the regular distribution of rice, but they essence of the poor people who came here
are too pitifully poor and weak to undertake the daring and cunning depredations from which Nanking has cuffered recently. One of the foreign residences was entered a few nights ago and over one hundred dollars' worth of things carried off: The Mugisteata promptly deposited with the loser the full value of the articles in dollars, which are to be retained should the articles not be found.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.