The new Governor of Shantung took over the seals of office on the 26th. His predecesser on the evening of the 22nd beheated Chu Hung-teng, a man named Yii, and Buddhist priest, three leaders who have been in enptivity for many weeks, and who ought to have been executed long ago, The moral effect of the act has been largely lost by the delay, although immediately about the capital one incidental result has been to break up a number of " Boxer" camps, ant disperse hundreds of "Boxers" who were boldly drilling in the suburbs ofthecity itself. This fact shows well the animus of the Into Governor, which could not be mistaken by ty the heavy elling has beet and very little infern abroad as to the probable course which is to be taken by Govern Yuan in the Boxer" business, According to. Western ideas the arrival of his troops ouzlit to have been the signal for an immediate pounce upon the chief headquarters of the Boxers" in every principal centre, to arrest the known leaders and send them to Chinanfu for examination,
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