THERE have been various reports from the North from time to time that endeavours were being made we punish the Chinese who took service with the Allied troops as interpreters during the recent operations in Chihli, 'There were, of course, a large number of Chinese' who spoke foreign languages employed in this way and, as the allied troops went officially to Chili to aid the Chinese Govern-iment to suppress a very dangerous rebellion, these Chinese were doing good service to their own country in giving their services to the friendly foreigners. News has uow been received that Viceroy Yuan Shih-kai is making every effort to obtain a complete fist of these traitors,-as he considers them, with a view to their condign punishment, as soon as the foreign troops are withdrawn from his province. The men themselves, recognising the danger in which they are, are naturally anxious to get the protection of the Powers to whose contingents they were respectively attached, and we are told that they have been making enquiries as to whether they can become naturalised; it is obviously right that they should be protected in whatever way the Foreign Ministers find most feasible. They were of the greatest assistance to the troops, they did well the duties case, as it transpired that he waste alit they undertook, and they are not to intents and purposes the 'Shéngko be classed with' ordinary spies who The irregular practices of know that they take their lives in-their
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