In addition to the recent ex" tion of the late Governor Wang Caihhsin for receiving bribes, the President has sanctioned the impriso: s-ment of Major-General Yao Chieh-hsun, Into Chief Staff Officer of the Peking Patrolling Force, for twelve years, with deprivation of his public rights for life, because, in his official capacity, he issued passports to his men to smuggle opium from Kalgan into Peking under the cover of purchasing Mongolian horses. The man who smuggled opium for Yao has been sentenced to death by the Martial Court as he illegally used two of the convicted officer's soldiers as an escort.
Chung Yin was Chinese Resident at Lhasa, Tibet, in 1911-12 and returned to Peking, vid India, after the disbandment of the Chinese garrison there. This Manchu official has been accused by the son of the late Lo Chung-chieh, Senior Councillor to the Residentcy, who was murdered by Chung's bodyguards during the confusion, while he is also cused of extorting money from his officers and soldiers and ill-treating certain Tibetans, thus incurring the intense hatred of the Tibetan people, ete. Chung will be tried by a special court of officials and in order to set a good example to Chinese Residents and other officials abroad, he will surely meet the same fate as Wang Chih-hsin if his charges are proved. President Yuan believes that the Mongolians of Mongolia and s portion of the Tibetans who now hate Chinese adi istration have been to a great extent actuated by the illegal and atrocious actions of high officers of the defunct Manchu Court in the two countries.
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