Meanwhile some miscreants are amusing themselves by cutting the telegraph line. The latest escapade of this sort was only last night at the village of Wangerchwaug. A hundred yards of wires are down and insulators smashed. What the railway directors will do about it this time remains to be seen. The general impression among the local Chinese is that the mischief is not being done by the village adjacent to the damaged line, but by some one who has 2 grudge against that community, and is using this means of getting them into 2 scrape. This is the fourth offence of the Kind in six months. We hope this damage to the railway property may not involve the newly appointed military officer here, General Sun Chin-piao, whose record as a progressive man has heretofore elicited much praise from his foreign acquaintances.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.