A private letter from Peking, speaking of the pleasure it has given to people in the capital to learn the news of ince Su's appointment, as Common ant Gendarmerie and Commissioner of Reads, states that Prince Ssu has already made a Body of Manchus, many of whom are at weeding-out of the members of that
inca-cited by the e7'un and other vices. Of the balance, over one-bult are to be turned into regular police constables, to patrol the roads, but they are to retain their military character, and at regular intervals must appear on the parade ground to be drilled acourding to foreign models. Besides the Peking Gendsrmes, two battalions of the ' Green=Corps" (Chine also to be turned into con-tables, retaining however their military character. vith Tune.
Kolao Huis in Chekiang are reported to have been tite active Intely in getting recruits in that pro-Ti is al in in Hanzchow, that there we-e fe Huis in Chekiang province pre 1900, but that owing t" the introduction, since then, of several regiments of Hunan and North Kiangsu troops for the seacoast defences, there are now a great many members of the Kolao Hui Revolutionery Society in the province who are suspected to be concocting certain schemes against the Government. Thishas put the officials at Hangchow on the alert, with the result that, according to a dispa'eh from that cits, they {have arrested one of the principal chiefs fof the Kola" Huis, named Ho Yung-tsing, who gave, und-r torture, such as: ounding, elations of the extent of the work and ramifications of the society, within the ast two years in Chekiang, that it was decided to- behead the man at once as a warning to the revolutionists that the Government was on the alert. Amongst the names of the principal members, of the given by the prisoner was thut of a \jor, second in command of a battalion in the vicinity of Wenchow. This officer was at once arrested by order of Governor (Jen Tao-yung, aad was recently secretly brought to Hangchow, where he is now awaiting trial. "All the papers, flags and paraphernalia of " head chief of the Kolao nis were found in the possession of the Major in question, who is also reported have openly defied the authorities to {Dehead him, a3 " revolution amongst the troops would soon ensue if he were made away with.
The Chino-Japanese Commercial Negotiations.
It is reported in local mandarin circles that during the absence of Sir J, Mackay, the British Commercial Commissioner, from Shanghai during the hot weather, the interval will be takeo advantage of by the Chinese and Japanese Commissioners to mercial treaty between the two countries.
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