Intelligence has been received in Canton that the people of the Poning district near Swatow are in rebellion, The inhabitants of some hundreds of villages have joined with banditti and secret society men, and have taken up arms against the Government. The authorities are gate helpless, and have sent to the Viceroy for assistance HLE.Li Hung-chang has accordingly ordered General Wong Kung-fuk to take a large number of troops and proceed in the gunboat Chanto to Swatow to quell the rising.
Hongkong, 10th February.
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