Some time ago, owing to the illegal imposition of taxes on trivial articles by the district officials of Kneisui (Kueihua and Suiyuan) to the annoyance of our people, Ho Tsung-lien was appointed to proceed there to make an investigation and to submit a true account of the sufferings of the people before us. Now he has memorialized us by telegraph, stating that the districts under Suiyuan suffered alternately from drought and flood between the summer and autumn of last year; and after the advent of winter they were infested by the tufei, the people of the two districts Sah and Chah suffering the most, while the villages and marts of Wuchuan were stripped bare by the looters; and that people in other districts are all in a very pitiful, poor condition. He requests us to instruct the Lieutenant-General of Suiyuan to Peking, Mar. 11, Issued through the Chengshitang The Capture of Machi.
Chiangehun Chen Yi, Chiang-chin Tsao Kun, and Chang Chin-yao, Commander of the &nd Division of the Expedition, have successively reported as follows "Tsai Ao, the rebel leader, taking advantage of the weak military strength on the Szechuan frontier, and before the arrival of the large reinforcements despatched by the Central Government, collected together over 10,000 picked troops of the Yunnan Army, and, having obtained the support of one brigade of troops under the command of Liu Ts'ung-hou of Szechuan, who rebelled, he first occupied Suifu and then attacked Luchow, with the hope of taki Possession of all the rich regions in the upper reaches of the Changkiang, whence he could challenge Chengtu and threaten Chungking. This treach-
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