A Northern Chinese newspaper publishes a letter received from " Mukden correspondent, in which it is stated that' on the 19th instant Marshal Oyama suddenly gave orders to close the city gates of Mukden and, sending his bodyguards various yamens and residences, arrestect thirteen Chinese officials all of whom were confined in the house of an official named Fu Meng-chen. The suspects are given two meals a day, provided by the district m"gistrates of Chéngté and Hsingjén, the two hsien, or districts, into which Mukden is divided. The following is the list of the principal officials arrested:—Ta, Mukden Board of War Secretary; Chung and Ma, expectant prefects; Lien, Chief of the Tribunal of Justice; Wang, Colonel Commanding Middle Division Military Patrol Corps Li, Commanding South Division Patrol Corps; Yung, head of the Mukden University, and his son; Chang, Supernumerary member of the Mukden Military Secretariat, and, two chihsien Ku and Li. The remaining two are a military orderly of the Tartar General and a man who receives the cards of callers on the Tartar General. There is general apprehension amounting to a panic amongst the Chinese in Mukden on account of these summary arrests, the reason for which has not been given out.
The Governor-designate of kiangsi Province, H.E. Hu Ting-kan, having handed over the seals of the Shantung Governorship to his successor H.E. Yang Chi-hsiang, left Chinan yesterday morning for his new post in Nanch'ang, vid Tsingkiang-
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