The fact of the hous and family] of Mr. Chow, one of Gen. Tung's secretary staff, being looted by large. gang of armed bandits at Shaho, has made Gen, Tung extremely angry ud he is determined to clear out the bandits in northern Kinngsi. Another 100 soldiers have been to Shaho to help in the chase.
News from Tehan, a place way between the Nanchang Kiukiang railway stations, is to the effect that a group of bandits have killed a number of police there and that they then took out their hearts and ate them, Fortunately the chief of the bandits! was caught in one of the teashops in the city and will be put to death in due time.
Another $2,000 have been raised in Foul and Lopin for the fund for -building the new public park here.
Kiangsi is well prepared for the investigation of the courts of Justice and the judiciary by th Committee to be formed by the Powers.
Mansuat Ferg Vu-hsiang, has! circulated a telegram in the course of which he demands the suppression of opium in China. He urges that! 'a commission should be appointed to look into the matter.
"THE Chinese Theatres Handbook," a booklet by Mr. B. S. Allen, has just been published in Peking by "La Librarie Frangaise." The originality and interest of this work, which has been expressly written to enable foreigners understand the Chinese stage will make it popular both with the general public and the lovers of Chinese art; for, up to the present very little attention has. been paid to drama of this country and ver; little information can be obtain fon the subject from foreign literature. -Mr. Allen explains also many of - the conventions. aad symbols of this art, such as, the waving of @\tassaled wand to show that the actor is on "hi and the mounting of a chair to secure] invisibility.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.