Manila, May 22.
Major Burton Read, aide-de-camp to Governor-General' Wood and special investigator of the alleged maltreatment of two British sub= jects, Mr. A. T. Kay and Mr. B.D. Brown, at Tioilo by a Filipino mob recently, recommends the sup sion of Mr. Arcosa, Chief of Police at Molle, and the forfeiture of his Pay.
'Major Read says that the Police Chic€ used unnecessary violence in arresting the Britons, and also humiliated them by' conducting them, after arrest, through—the auditorium of the Iloilo Carnival grounds in sight of a large crowd of Filipinos "and others, Majox Read finds that the Britons might have avoided the row by the exercise of a greater measure of fact at the beginning of the ars cation.
Governor-General Wood is pected to approve of the reconimendation to suspend Mr. Arcosa,—Reuter's Pacific Service.
Gex. La Yung-hsiang, Tupan of Chekiang, has, in response to a signified willingness to place guest from the Chinese Sitk Guild,
troops on the railway and water~ routes in Chekiang for the purpose of protecting sible and cocoon ear-riers during the present season, Chekiang is evidently not the law-abiding province of six months ago.
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