The following official dispatches were recently received by the Kuangtung provineial high authorities at Canton from the provincial officials of Kuvilin, the capital of Kuangsi. On the 2nd of September a body of "several hundred insurgents, mainly composed of disbanded s-idlers, coming suddenly from the hamlet of Ka'rh, belong: ing to the subprefecture of Hech ikchou, Prefecture of Clitiugyuanfu (Ruangsi province) forced their into the above-named sub-prefectural city, and getting hold of the person of the sub-prefect, Chang, threw him into his own prison, there to await the pleasure of the head chief of the band. "The insurgents then took possession of the city, upon the principal gentry of which they laid very heavy contributions under pain of having the city burned over their victims' heads. On the 10th of September—the date of the Aispatch—the insurgents were still Lolding Hoch'ihchou; but they are not expected to remain there long, it having been their consistent: practice so far not to garrison any of the walled cities taken by them.—Another dispatch reports that the region belonging to and outside the prefectural city of Linchoufu is at present overrun by insurgents, who now and again appear before the city walls as if intent upon assaulting them. In fact so menacing was the situation at one time that the prefect of Linchon sent urgent messages to Gorernor Wang Chih-chun for help, account of which he -ent at once four batial.ns of Hunan troops to clear the surrounding vicinity of rebels while, on the other hand, General Huang, one of the high officers brought south ly Governor Wang, took with him a similar fore: to Ch'ingyuanfu to retake the sub-prefectural city of Hoch'ihehou, and then making a aétour join the first-named force and entewour to surround the insurgents somewhere in the neighbourhood of Linchoufu.—Another dispatch, dated 11th Septem ber, reports an imp: rtant capture of insurgent leaders by frontier military police of the Ch'ing-Lien Military Intetiannoy of Kuangtung detailed by Viceroy Tao Mu to prevent the Kuangsi rebel from crossing and recrossing the boundaries of the two provinces (Kuangtung, Kuangsi). It having come to the ears of the Captsin of the Military police at Hop'a that a well-known Kuangsi Triad Chief, named Tsou Tang-kao, escorted a dozen or so followers, had been seen in that vicinity on the 8th of September, th Captain started out the same night to make a search of the villages in the neigh.ur-hood, taking with him a couple of hundred men and a number of spies who could identify the Triad Chief. The police eventually discovered the retreat of the Chief, and an advance was at once made on the Village; but the plies were soon camp: Il-d to get under shelter, owing t" the volleys of Mauser bullets which greeted them, a which struck down " number of' the advancing puty. The superior numbers of the police, however, compelled the Triads to evacuate the village and flee to another village called Hsianz Shantvun, the inhabitants of which, however, being hostile to the rebel cause, prepared an ambush for the fi-cing Triads, with the result thit Tsou T'ang-ka and' two other chiefs were captured and six of their followers. When the police eventually came upon the tracks of the insurgents the villagers han led over th i the surprise and, naturally, deli the former, who, in spite of being nearly twenty to one, could have done nothin; tothe Triads, The polic+ lost four kil'e and seven wounded, while the Triads had only one shot down, and that not by a soldier but by a villager with a " gingal."
Cut Down by Coast Dwellers.
On Sunday afternoon, while a number of men were gamble a village on the coast, in the jurisdiction of the neighbuui ug district of Nanhui (coll: Nansway), the tipao of the place, with his assistant and a posse of villagers, who had been called nyon by him to assist, suddenly appeared on the scene and attempted to arrest two well-known desperadoes of the ril'age. As most of the dwellers of the coast in that vicinity go about armed, either with long daggers, pistols or fighting irons, the arrest was at once resisted by the gamblers, who cut down and instantly killed the tipao's assistant, while the tipao (or village constable, it should have been stated) himself received two deep gashes on his head and face. The village "posse" was of course nowhere the moment the fight began, and it is suspected that this was a' preconceived scheme to make away with the village constables. for had the latter not been emboldened by the promised assistance of the village "posse" the two men would ever have dared to attempt the arrest by their own unaided efforts. The murderers, who are really coast pirates, made their escape.
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