12th April.
Ta Nascnaso Massacen, It is reported in local mandarin circles that M. Dubail, the French Minister la Peking, called at the Foreign Office (Waiwapu) on the 8th instant and presented the following four demands in settlement of the recent murders Nanchang, viz:—(1) An acknowledgment that the late magistrate Chiang Chao-tang was not murdered; (2) the cashiering of the present Governor of Kiagei, Hu Ting-kan, and his dismissal from the public service for ever; the degradation three steps in official rank of the Provincial Treasurer and and Provincial Judge of Kiangsi and their transference to some other posts commensurate with the degradation of the prefect of Nanchang to the rank of a chihsien; (3) the punishment of eight of the gentry of the city of Nanchang; and (4) an indemnity of Tls.450,000. Its, however, understood that the above demands have been firmly refused by the Waiwopa
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