Two or three further items in connection with, the, miserable Kiangpei offic. are worthy of reported, The Grat is that militia have boon dispersed. They me, and saw, and by their defiant attitude 40 far conquered that, up to the nothing has been done to punish responsible for the crime of last Monday night. The tocsin was sounded, and sounded to some purpose. It is scarcely too much to say that, for several days, the porce of the community was imperilled by the prosonco of lasies bands who left their homes and their crops for the purpose of slemonstrating" in the presence of the hated foreigner in this region, That they might have been pro-vented from. coming at all is aufiiciently established by the fact that their dispersion appears to have b-en accomplished without very much trouble, In any case, they have gone; and in this way the strain of the situation has been yYery much raliored. The second point is that, owing presumably, to the presence of the mob the authorities were compelled t" set at liberty throo men who had been arrested in connection with the murder. Such, at Toast, is common report, and up to the present it has not been contradicted. You will understand that no foreigner is at present allowed to visit Kiangpeh to test matters for himself. Not that the liberal tion of these three individuals matters very much, They are not in any case men whose names are before the native and foreign officials as being primarily responsible for ths outrage. Until these latter have been arrested, justice will not have been secured. Needless to say that no practical step has yet been taken to arrest them.
The third item is that, two days ago, the Taotai issued.a proclamation which, to all intents and purposes,
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