at Shangchuangk'ou (EEF) sent a detachment under an officer in pursuit of these men, and succeeded in capturing one. Another ran into the sea, outside the east gate of the city, and was there cut down and died on the way into the city. The body lay exposed on the street, outside the yumeén, for two ur three hours, when with his prisoner and the body of the dead man the officer returned to the camp. It is unfortunate that Col. Bower was not made acquainted with the incident until pursuit was out of the question. Indeed, the murder took place shortly after mid-day, at a place where the few companies of the 1st Chinese had been on parade net an hour before. Commissioner Gaunt was at once acy'ninted with the circumstances, for apparently he exercises control in theory i least, over the whole British territory, but as he is absolutely without means of enforcing authority save by appeal to them: authorities for men—and Confucius told us Tong ago that you must not use " butcher's knife to kill a chickon—his control is only in name. The is kind is policed, kept spic and span for all the world like the deck of ship, but heretofore the mainland has been altogether neglected, much to the inconvenience of residents, military and civil. It remains to be seen whether this
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