Dispatches from Chungking, report that Roxerism in received considerable encou the invasion from the Yunnan borders of a large body of **(youl" Society or Tatad Huis*nen, which is the parent society of the Boxers. From Yunaan pro-meo also comes the news of the sudden starting up of Boxer societies in. the con try towns and villages bordering the frontiers Yunnan and Sechuan, in consequence ut which the mandarins of the two borders mutually make complaints against exch other. 'The officials on the Szechuan frontier reporting to their chief, the Chengtu, accuse the Yunnan driving the Boxers in their territory eross jthe border into Szechuan, thereby re-infareing the Boxers of the' latter instead crushing the desperadoes on the spot, and vied verse the Yunnan officials when reporting the matter to their chief, the Viceroy at Yun it is also styled Yun the cap ity of 1 the province of that name. Asa matter of fact, so bad a watch is kept along the borders of the two provinces that the Boxers cross and recross at their Pleasure, so that unless Viceroy Wei Kuang-tao of Yunnan acts more vigorously and seeeeeslly—being an o'd soldier and one of the late redoubtable Marquis Tso Toung-tang's lieutenants in the reconquest {of Chinese Turkestan, he ought to do s0—than the deposed Kei Chun of the general recrudescence of Boxerism in the south-western provinces of China will soon he un fait accompli. There is, however, one hope for the lovers of peace, and that is, so long as the Court at Peking dare not openly proclaim the Boxers as the "Heaven sent bulwarks of the Manchu dynasty. and the divinely-created exterminators of the barbarians of the West," as was Knowledged by Imperial decrees in 1900, the present attempt at a crusade against Christian missions and converts first, next at foreign merchants and foreign troops, in Szechuan and Yunnan provinces, cannot last very long, and the poor, iguoraat professors of "fisticuffs" of the south.western provinces will without the least doubt suiter the same sanguinary fate that was meted out to the rebels of south-western
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