of the affair, especially as we have reliable information that a large German cruiser is lying off the city of Jihchao, a few miles Tork of Antungwei. The utter' failure of the officials to manage the numerous riot cases before them justifies the suspicion that there is connivance at the on! in high quarters. A few days since, for example, the Taotai of Yenchoufu' and Tchoufu arrived here with a great flourish of trumpets. He informed the foreigners that he had come to put these cases through and would not leave until that end had been accomplished. What was our amazement, then, to learn two days later that he had left the city and returned home! A de-Hou Cbinanfa to ako the place of the duty prefect, named Yang, has come down regular incumbent, Ting, who has gone to
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