From Oar Own Correspondcat, Mienchow, Sze., Jao. 7.
Opened at a late hour from fear.
Last Wednesday the South Gate of brigands; but I havea no definite information as to how mat. ters stand. One person explained the situation thus: "You see, it does not do to dub these men too plainly as brigands They may: be at Tangfang for instance li away) passing during the daytime as auxiliary troops; and thea at night they are off somewhere to loot 17"
A really distressing piece of news comes from an old student now in Chengtu. He writes: "On January 1 the students of Chengtu met together in the park to carry out a scheme fon three days theatricals to provide funds for their newspaper." The events. that happened must apparently be connected with the recent quarrel between the students and the soldiers of which I wrote some time back. It appears that the soldiers were punished; and made up their minds to be revenged. During the morning groups of soldiers came to buy tickets for the thea-trials and made a row because they were not allowed to purchase them at half price. They became' so threatening that a student kowtowed to them and begged them to go away. This they did, but before long greater numbers came and began to take tickets by fores and literally "spoilt the show." Many of the spectators fled, but numbers of students of both sexes were assaulted by the soldiers and treated in ways too shameful for details.
A Chinese gentleman of my acquaintance here offers the _following explanation: "The soldiers hate Liu Tsun-hou, and want to make his rule a by-word, and ara doing all they can to get him into disrepute as well as get their revenge. They want Hsiong Keh-wu' He then went on to say: "There are things about Hsiong Keh-wu that Ido not like. In 1917 he called in the Yunnanese to help him get rid of Liu: and now he calls in Liu to help him get rid of the Yunnanese. His next move will be similarly self-interested. T fancy he will see his opportunity in this." A hopeless state of affairs. What can he done for such a nation as this?
Tue Peking Government hae appointed Mr. Chang Shih-chao aa its representative in the case of the Customs money at Shanghai, which had been paid over to the Military Government at Canton and which had been deposited with the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank by Dr. Wu Ting-fang as Minister of Finance. The Government by thie appointment probably intends to apply to the British Consular Court for further injunction against the bank's part with the money. says the Peking Daily News."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.