Six men, arrested by " military patrol a fow days ayo in che vicinity of T'aibu lake, near Soochow, and brought over to that city for trial, confessed" before " special tribunal detailed by the Provincial Judge that they were ayonts of the powerful Kolio Hui revolutionary society, detailed with the duty of raising recruits and disseminating membership cloth passes—p'ao—for which a small fee is demanded to pay the expenses of the agents, Those confessed that they had come from the Hu-Kuang provinces where were the principal headsjuarters of the society: but it appears that no torture was severe or cruel enough to extract from the unfortunate men a single word, even to give a hint, as to where these headquarters actually are. To all questions in this direction there was a grim and determined silence, The upshot of the trial was that the six men, more dead than alive at the time, were sent to execution on the 24th inst A PROPOSED COMMERCIAL SCHOOL, A Hankow dispatch reports that wealthy native merchant of that port has been recently endeavouring to interest other wealthy fellow-merchants and gentry in subscribing funds towards establishing a school of Western Learning at Hunkow, where children of merelunts may obtain good education in Kuylish or other European languages without sending them—as so many have liven doing—to Shanghai to obtain only a rudimentary English education,
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