was at its height the other day in the city of Chéngchoo, in Honan province, which resulted in the smashing of the magistrate's yamen by a mob and the opeeing of the prison doors of the departmental gaol. Fortanately, however, none of the inmates confined io the prison took advantage of the opportunity offered, recapture meaning doubling the gravity of crime, The cause of the meute was the arrest by the magistrate of the head of the Educational Association of that city which brought about a strike amongst all the schools there and a poy" rising.
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