Northern dispatch reports the arrest by one of the Genral Ma Yii-k'un's officers, Shanhaikuan, of a native named Feng Ch'ing, who was discovered trying to smuggle out of the Great Wall no loss than 31,000 torpedo fuses. The prisoner confessed himself to be a discharged mafoo of General Chu, at Tienchuangt'ai, and that he had been tempted by a heavy bribe to deliver the torpedo, or electrical mine, fuses to Russian agents in the vicinity of the Liao river. During the investigation it also transpired that these fuses had been stolen from the Chinese Torpedo Depariment, belonging to the Peiyang Administration, thereby implicating several persons oonnected with that department. The fuses were, of course, confiscated and a further investigation has been ordered by the Chih-military authorities into the charges made by the ex-mafoo in question, Boxerism in Kiangsi Province.
A Nanch'ang, capital of Kiangsi province, dispatch reports that a number of men professing the same power of invulnerability against bullets and sword thrusts, as that affected by the Northern Boxers of 1900, have lately appeared in the Kiangsi market town of Lungeh'uan, near the Hunan frontier district of Hsingninghsien, As soon as 8 of Boxerism arrived at Lungchuan they began performing at once to show off their power of warding off sword cats preceded by certain mystical rites calculated to inspire awe in the minds of the ignorant rustics of that region, exactly like those practised by the Chihli Boxers in 1900. When this was reported: by the petty officials of Lungch'uan to Governor Hsia Shih, at Nanchang, his excellency immediately ordered the colonel commanding at the garrison town nearest Lungch'uan to send a detachment to arrest the chief Boxers and disperse their followers who, it was reported, were growing in numbers daily. Unfortunately, the force sent' to break up this assembly' of Boxers and their newly made converts was too small, the military authorities, as usual, underestimating the power of the desperadoes. The result was what could have been easily anticipated. The Boxers made a desperate stand and what was worse, as it thereby enhanced in the eyes of the rustics the power of the Boxers and stron; their belief in the latter's invulnerability, they killed twelve
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.