private dispatch from Tientsin states that several days before tie bomb outrage at Peking H.E. Viceroy Yuan Shih-K'ai received reliable information that a number of the followers of Sun Yat-sen, the "Red Republican," as he has sometimes been termed, had arrived from the South and were scattered both about Tientsin and Pekin, In consequence of this information Viceroy Yuan Shih-K'ai at nce telegraph ed the news to Na Tung, th Commandant of the Peking Gendarmori fen, Director of Public Works and the Deparment of Public Snfety, ushing them to keep a good watch and to arrest all strangers and suspicious cha who could not give an account of solve The same quietly issued to all officials concerned in Tientsin. There is reason to believe therefore that the bomb outrage of Sunday was perpetrated by Sun Yat-son's men. In consequence of the uncertainty and panic in the air caused by the outrage their Majesties have decided at the earnest request of their advisers, to forego their trip to Hochtenfu to witness the autumn army manoeuvres early next mouth. The High Commissioners will however proceed on their journey abroad in w fow days.
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