Foochow dispatch states that band of desperadoes styling themselves Wuka Hai, or "Society of the Five Cereals," suddenly made s raid on the district city of Kienyang and held up the town for many hours, the Chibbsion (district magistrate) and Shoupei (captain of the garrison) being too weak to be able to maintain authority, In response to a telegram asking for aid, Viceroy Sung Shou at 4 once sent a detachment of the newly organized disciplined troops la Foochow to Kienyang to restore order. As the disturbance is " purely local one the outbreak will be easily put down by the beheading of a few of the desperadoes,
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