Owing to the ease with which the new copper ten-cash pieces can be imitated—it is alleged that even the lemonade-g machine has been successfully utilised for this—and the enormous profits that accrue from this illegal business, counterfeiters of this money are said to have lately multiplied to such an alarming degree that stringent orders have been issued by the provincial authorities everywhere to their subordinates to put a stop to the illicit traffic without delay, on pain of denounced to the Throne and ered, A Chinkiang letter states that there is quite a sensation in Manchu circles in that city caused by the arrest of a Manchu colonel commanding one of the Tartar regiments near Chinkiang, whose two younger brothers and a son have boon discovered by local authorities of that city to be connected with a large gang of counterfoitors who had been making the vicinity of the barracks of the Tartar regiment their headquarters, and were gotting wealthy with the proceeds of their illicit business under the wgis of the unlucky colonel who, it is stated, is himself innocent. Three. of the minor members of the gang of counter. feitors have been already arrested, and when the Chinkiang Taotai applied to the Manchu Major-General commanding the Tartar regiments near Chinkiang for the persons of the younger brothers and son of his subordinate officer they could not be produced, having, it is reported, fled to Shanghai the moment they heard of the atrost of their confederates. The Manchu Major-General and the Viceroy at Nanking therefore gave ordinate a week to produce his kinsman, and as the colonel was unable to comply, he has been made to take the burden on his own shoulders, according to Chinese law, and he' has been sent, under escort, to: Nanking for trial, The first part of the proceedings will be to find out whether the old colonel has himself had any connection with the doings of the gang; should be be found innocent he will then be confined until such time as his younger brothers and son come forward themselves, or, what is more likely, until they are arrested by the officers of the law.
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