It is reported in mandarin circles that the Allied officers have obtained certain proofs of the complicity and guilt of Chang, Governor of Honan; the Brigadier-General of Nanyang Circuit of Honan (a Chinese); and also of another high officer whose name does not transpire, who were instrumental in the murder of some missionaries in that province last summer. It is expected that when captured the officials above noted will be dealt with in the same way as the mandarins of Paotingfu the other day, As a number of the Jocal officials were guilty in the same way, compelled, it is claimed, by the orders of their superior officers, there is quite a panic at present in Honan province.
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