Canton, Oct. 31.
In my last letter I described bomb-throwing on the bund her= and its immediate consequences. Next day the officials issued proclamation, " business people, outrage was attributed to robbers, who hoped in the confusion to find an opportunity to steal.
Tt may safely be averred that the officials themselves were not convinced by their own proclamation, as shown by the way in which they are ransacking every part of the city for suspected persons. Nine men have been arrested, and from the description of some _of them, if they are in aay way imin regard to the craft that ply upon the Canton river, and where they are to anchor in ths future Th idea is to allow no facilities {or landsman to hire boats, in which to pass the night. Boats of all kinds must keep off the bund a night, and owners must not allor mere chance visitors to hire their craft for any purpose: whatever Many instances are on record it which robberies have been planned by people who had passed the early part of the night in one of thes boats.
The officials in the south, and s far as this goos we believe in the north also, are awake to the fact that seditious publications are finding their way into China, and a? trying to lay hands upon them. The headquarters of in pro-ind. seditious pamphlets com nda, it seems, is in merica,
from the Cantonese, who carry business on the Californian coast I know for a fact that societies ist whose avowed object is what is called the Third Revolution. societies are affiliated to Sun Yat sen, and are working in his interests. To what extent this pro paganda has found its way into the life of this province, we bare present no means of knowing. But, on the whole, then, it is not to be wondered at that the officials are disturbed, and are keeping both eyes open to detect the first movements of what may have s"Fious results.
Hitherto I have spoken only Canton. Meanwhile the country districts do not seem to be ins res satisfactory condition. We
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