According to this document already in important places like Kai-yingchow, Shiuhing, Loting, Fu-moon, and less important places, rebels have been arrested, examined and without exception executed, in most cases shot. It is known that the Government has spies out everywhere, and detectives are in every town and in almost every village; therefore, the rebels have not the Toast chance of success.
Moreover, the army to-day is absolutely devoted to its officers. Its officers have lived with their men, and shared their hardships and their comforts, and s loyal spirit pervades all ranks. The navy is equally equipped, and equally devoted to the present order of things, and no offers that the rebels can make will seduce the army or the navy from their allegiance. But even if this were possible, the rebels have no funds to speak of. Those who were captured had only on their persons and in their dwellings a few bun-dred dollars, and what are such sums as these, as an inducement to win the devotion of loyal troops?
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.