'A K'aiféng, capital of Honan province, telegram received here yesterday states that news has been received in that city from Changtéfu, a prefecture bordering Chihli province, to the effect that several hands of Honan desperadoes joined the Kuangtsung rebels, under hing Ting-pin, who fied the other day into Honan, after being defeated by Viceroy Yuan's troops. The telegram further stated that Ching Ting-pin has now nearly 9,000 men with him, one-half, at least, of whom are well-armed, and is expected to recross soon into Chibli, after effecting an alliance with the Honan malcontents.
26th May.
Entrance Examinations for the Peking University.
According to a Peking dispatch the \jects—a pretty large order, by the way, a first attempt—on which candidates for entrance to the first year, or Freshman Class of the newly organised Peking versity are to be examined in, in the month of September of each will, until further notice, be nine in all: They are as follows:—(1) A' short, essay given out topic—in English Chinese; (3) Geography—China and thi countries: (3) History: and those of other countries; (5) Specimens of trans inese into English, and bra; (7) Geometry F tary Tuternation:
and (9), Physics and Chem Accandidate must obtain sixty out of one hundred marks on each of the nine subjects, before he can be matriculated.
"Who has Got That Money reportd from Peking that application was lately made officially upon the Chinese Foreign Office for the payment of something like Tls. 2,000, the price of a number of foreign technical text books which had been ordered from abroad by the then Chancellor of the Peking University, through the late President of that) Institution, Dr. Martin, jost. prior to the Boxer outbreak in 1900. Cpon the above application being sent on to the present Chancellor of the University, H.E. Cha Pei-hsi—who is also President of the of Civil Appointments—it was Upon, investigation, that the money already been paid by the University Treasurer immediately upon the arrival at the University of the text books in question. It is now being asked to whom the University Treasurer of the time, that during the first. months of 1900,' actually handed the Tls. 1,982; if he did so at all.
The Insurrection in N.-E. Chihli As is perhaps already well-known by readers of these ' Notes," in the northeastern portion of Chihli province, that i in Jeho territory and Ch'aoyanghsien, Chéngtéfu, there has been, since the winter of 1901, an insurrection in full blast there, where although the well-known General Ma Yi-kun is conducting operations in person, with over 10,000 men under him, peace has not yet been restored. It is now reliably stated that the reason of General Ma's nonsuccess has been owing to the deep hatred with which he is regarded by the inhabitants of that portion of Chilli, in consequence of which he has succeeded, on region. h he was sent to " pacify the contrary, only in setting the, whole ablaze, instead of bringing the insurgents, at first only about 4,000 of them, to terms. Thecause of this deep hatred was that, upon finding on his arrival at Ch'aoyanghsien that the insurgents were extremely refractory (through long continued success against the local forces.) General Ma Yii-kun inaugurated harsh measures against them and specially memorialised the Throne for permission to "sweep the whole country clean" and extend no merey to any one in arms, or hostile to the Government. This naturally gave great umbrage to the people of Jeého and Chaoyang, and General Ma at once found everyone there openly against him, To crown all, the Empress Dowager refused to hear of the General's scheme, but ordered him to use "pacific" measures and "exhort the insurgents to surrender under a promise of pardon." The upshot of the matter is that General Ma Yii-kun finds his hands tied and is yet expected to suppress the insurrection, while, on the other hand, his scheme has aroused the whole region, so that the insurrection is fast becoming a rebellion, encouraged, doubtless, by the successes of their fellow provincials in the south-west. In short, General Ma Yé-kun is in trouble; and a recent Imperial edict which has bene issued, severely censuring him and depriof button and tities, is only what
regime as that of the Empress Dowager. may naturally be expected under such a Sinews of War for Viceroy Yuan. ug toan appeal from Viceroy Yuan to Vie-roy Liu K'un-yi for an ang's pet troops, i Chun, or Army of the Huai,"
Chihli_provinee—Viceroy Li Jegraphed instructions toms Taotai's under him to above amount at once to the morth. Te is reported in lo 1 mandarin circles that the un expect-d determination [and opposition shown by the rebels of uth-west Chihli, las caused Viceroy Yuan to be hard' pressed for money to yarchase food supplies for his troops in the field, and to pay the wages of the extra [troops he has been compelled to raise under the exigencies of the present crisis. The result will be that the sale ranks, wh to be "for ever" stopped, will have to be started again, and very soon too The Insurrection in Honan province, which, according to a K'aiféng dispatch published last "week in these "Notes," after being reported suppressed," broke nut again about a fortnight azo with redoubled virulence in the same districts, namely, Piyanghsien, Tanghsien, Téungpéhhsien, ete., is now said to have been due not only on account of the summary decapitation of a popular chief, Hsi Siao-fa, but mainly owing to the ruthlessness of the troops operating against the insurgents. Tt is stated by refugees, who fled to Kaifeng from Piyang, that, on the plea of "searching for those who set fire to R. C. churches and murdered Christians," but really, of course, for the sake of revenge for their previous defeats and the instinct for' plunder and pillage, the Government troops actually "wiped out," that is to say, razed to the ground several villages ud massacred every man, woman, and child that happened to be there when the soldiers surrounded them. The outrages and massacres perpetrated upon innocent kien province, whose headquarters are in and defenceless women and children, were said to be heartrending, even by the troops themselves, when they marched back to the walled cities in triumph (?) with numberless heads of so-called rioters, either dangling on the sides of the saddles of the mounted troops, or stuck on the pikes and bayonets of the foot soliers. It is further claimed that the insurrection is spreading and will soon envelop all Honan.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.