Hight men who were recruiting for the Chinese army were arrested in Hongkew yesterday morning under rather peculiar ircumstaices. They, with a crowd of others, were in a tea house on Broadway when Chinese constable in mufti entered. The officer, who is a stalwart fellow, was at once asked would he do "soldier pidgin" at Woosung, as there had been many de-sections there lately. The constable agreed and gave a false name, and then said he had alor of friends who would like to be soldiers. He was asked to bring them along, and accordingly jhe went to Hong-Kew Police Station and returned thence with a party of detectives, who arrested the whole band of recruiters, and lodged them in the station,
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