Our Chengtu correspondent writes According to reports, the rioters at Yachow have met their deserts and few have escaped. As soon as the report of the sacking of the town reached here word was sent in all directions to cut off the looters. Accordingly reports are now coming in telling of the capture of men at various centres. It should be @ good lesson to other bands of troops who think to make themselves suddenly rich at the expense of the people.
Talk of cholera has died away. About the only ripple of interest this week has centred about some fantastic posters pasted about the city. One warns the public that: "iron thunder" is about to fall, and all must at once burn incense te the Thunder God. The second declares that on the first of the seventh month strangers are to go about calling people from their homes. The remedy fortunately is simple, "When hailed, don't respond." A third assures us that on the first of the tenth month there is to be a plague of asphyxiating smoke. Many will inhale thie and death will be instantaneous. For tunately the remedy is clearly state ed and not expensive, Burn rice straw, mix the ashes in water, then the men busily employed in scattering the placards. He assured them that if the Thunder God forgot to let loose the iron thunder, the police office had some of an-
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