The Presidential Mandat: dealing with the discovery of rebel plots Kuangtung and Chekiang concludes! with an order to the generale and governors to publish proclamations in sufficiently strong terms as will confines the people that the arm of the law is @ long one. This is what the mandate really means; the class of people from which plotters are mainly drawn is not likely to be affected by warnings against "being too credulous—towards false preachings" That there is considerable unrest in the south is evidenced by the recent bomb outrages, but that these crimes have any connexion with an organized attempt to raise the standard of revolt is most—improbable. China would indeed be a new country without unrest in the southern provincea So long as piracy, riot, and mutiny amongst the rabble who form the majority of the Kuangtung troops, are not] put down with a strong hand, there] must be disturbance of the peace. No serious attempt has been made, in spite of official assurances, to -lattack th> root of the evil, and, whilst a large army and police force are maintained, the—with. drawal of the gunboats of the belligerent nations from the Canton delta and the West river was immediately followed by fresh depredations by bands of pirates and other outlaws,
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