Owing to the cowardice of the Chivese itary officers xt Pootung and the i capacity of the civil mandarins, bri hus been quite rife in the towns and vill on the Pootung side, opposite our Se ments. Many most daring robberies hn been perpetrated on the gentry and work! merchants and pawnshops in' that district, and it hap always happened that the ndlitary manage to arrive at the scene of a dered: tion only when the robbers hare mare. off with their boot ud are far fr pursuit. On Monday, the 28th inst., 2 large hand of robbers made forcibly en large pawnshop in the luye market town of Kajno, Pootung, where they first, overawed the people in the vicinity and then coolly ninsicked the pawnshop of on its valushles and money. After the robbers had left. the military mandarin stationed in the new. bourhood came up with a body of "braves. who made a great noise, but were of cv too late as usual. This state of affairs has led the more thoughtful of the villagers to tint that there must be collusion of some ent between soldiers and brigands.
It wants a man like Mr. Shen Tur-ho here as Taotai to extirpate the ruffians who terrone Pootung.
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