President Yuan has lately been vending some excellent advice to he several officials of Kuangtung. He deals with three points, the need of catching more thieves; the import ance of dealing justly with prisoners, and general education. What is thought by untrammelled naive thinkers of these excellent exhortaions is shown by the leaders in the native papers that are outside the influence of the native censors, as for example in Hongkong. The President is told baldly, if the information ever reaches him, that catch the robbers with the men 5 at disposal is simply impossible, and that the country magistrates knowing this do not interfere wih them more than they can help.
Allowing for exaggeration, there still appears no doubt that thieves and robbers are allowed a pretty free hand. As for justice, the answer instill more distressing, for it shows that the very officials themselves te at variance wih one another. Itis asserted there is a deadly feud between the old and new represen-natives over the administration of
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