A Newchwang dispatch reports that the country people and banditti of the three Manchurian provinces in their bitter hostility against: the Russians who committed great cruelty und excesses upon the poor, defenceless inhabitants of Kirin and the Amur provices Inst year, have begun to systematically destroy telegraph poles and cut down wires everywhere, Communica. tion by telegraph from North to South Manehurit hus therefore been precarious and uncertain, As the land lines are supposed to be Chinese-owned, although taken possession of by the Russians, the Chinese telegraph authorities have been "requested to make the necessary repairs!"
26th July.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.