On the following day ths Chou official attacked them and killed several. Those who escaped flyd to Reusou their headquaricrs in that district. The wildest rumours con reachd here and speedily throw the city into a state of feverish excitement. By orders of the Prefect all the small gates of the city have been closed, and every gate of the city is strongly guarded. The Usien held as special conference with the missionaries Re-afforestation.
Large proclamations throughout the province exhort the people to plant trees broadcast. The trees of Yunnan suffered terribly in the Mahomedan rebellion thirty years ago, and no earnest effort has yet been made to repair the loss. Official rink is promised to all who plant. ten thousand trees or over, so that possibly the Chinese love of a button may lead in a few years' time to the changing of some of these barren hills into well-wooded and useful tracts of country. Of late years many myriads of wax trees have been planted in the neighbourhood "f Chaotung, and just now the snowy wax forming on the branches is a very pleasant sight, A most Distressing Affair has just sprung'
sprung Kokuei, one of the Roman Catholic Mission stations in the north of the province. Loueliness and illness have s" injured the French priest in ch"rge that he has apparently gone out of his mind, and is most reckless in his behaviour, on one occasion going so far as to shoot at a runner who came to his place on official business. Fortunately the man was nothin. All kinds of rumours are about concerning the priest, and the mandarins are very anxious that he shall be removed before serious damage is done.
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