Your correspondent was wakened this morning by the beating of a foreign drum, followed by the playing of what was supposed to be a foreign band, though the music made was most atrocious. No doubt the band was accompanying soldiers to a grand review, which was held to-day of the troops stationed in and about. Chinanfu.
Lawlessness Prevalent-Notwithstanding the presence of a goodly number of soldiers here, there is a considerable amount of lawlessness in this neighbourhood, manifested by bold attempts at robbery cither by day or by night. During the New Year holidays a Cucu chop in the south suburb was raided near dusk one evening by soldiers and robbed of a considerable amount of cash, while on another occasion soldiers killed a manager of a theatre in town. These
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