that Yuan Shih-kai has been bought over by foreign money, and that his proclamations are therefore "fictitious." Ina recent case a headman of a village where there is a dangerous camp of Boxers, told his towns-men this, and in a short time the proclamation was in shreds. The book of cases mentioned above he has suppressed altogether. All the magistrates that we hear of have adopted the happy plan of having all the leading men certify that the J Ho Ch'uan is non-existent in their village at present, nder penalty of being themselves arrested in case anything turns out to be wrong. But why should they believe this particular falsehood more than the int table others with which they have been familiar since the movement began? So they all with one accord give the desired written proof, which is then seat on to the capital. Tothe complaint that the outbreaks continue, that the cam drill by night all the time, there ist conclusive big that there are no camp as per oficial report on file. We see no reason to modify the previous long-formed,
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