We have received. memo:
Ting Chen-to, Viceroy of the provinees, strongly denouncing the reck~ Jess conduct.of 8 deputy. sub-protect of Yunnan province and asking that the said official be cashiered and banished to the. military post roads, where he should be put to severe hard labour in expiation of his conduct. It appears that in April Inst, when the Batang insurgents.on the Szechuan provincial borders started to make trouble, they also visited Atun, a Lolo hamlet' belonging to Weibsi. subprefecture, on the Yunnan provincial frontier. The insurgents however did not remain long at Atun, for they were promptly driven across the borders by the Lolo inhabitants, Then it was that the official accused in this. memorial, the deputy sub-prefect, Li Tsu-yn, suddenly arrived at Atun with a body of militia, apparently to. assist in. driving out the Batang insurgents The scoused official subsequently suddenly and unexpectedly caused one Ho Wen-yao, the Lolo lieu tenant of the hamlet, to be. executed, without cause, and extorted from the i habitants money and food for the militia and for himself. All this created great indignation amongst the inhabitants round about Atun and grave charge wore made by them against the leader of the militia, the accused official in ques tion, This man then proceeded to lay the blame on his secretary, one Wang Juhai, and his interpreter, Chao Ten-hsi, whom he accordingly caused to be also decapitated, ete.
With reference to the above, the sug. gestion of the memorialist that the accused official be merely cashiered and banished to the mi and put to severe hard labour, in punishment for his reckless conduct, is in our opis too light to fit his case of wantonjsacrifice of innocent lives. We hereby cot mand the said deputy sub-prefect to. be cashiered and then summarily decapitate ed as a warning to others.
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