The " Sinwenpao" states that the Wai-wuhu has received " telegram from H. E. Chao Erh-séu, Tartar General of Féug-tien, stating' that he has received a petition from a number of Chinese merchants who had hitherto been in business a1 Talienwan complaining that they had eon unjustly expelled from that place by the Japanese, who did not even give them time to wind up their affairs; in consequence of this the petitioners had to leave considerable personal goods and real estate to the tender mercies of the Japanese. The Waiwupu is therefore asked to communicate with the Japanese Minister in Poking and try and obtain redress for the Chinese merchants in question, No reason for the expulsion la given in the native paper quoted.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.