A Wuchang letter statex that in reply to ® dispatch from the Ministry War, ordering a large consignment of arms and ammunition to be sent to Yunnan for the nse of the newly orxanized army corps in that provinces, HE. Chen K'uei-mog, Viceroy of the rix province, has declared his inability to fall the order ax the troops in his own viceroyalty reynier all that he has at the present moment. The Viceroy snxcests that whatever may needed by the Yunnan troops be purchased from abroad, failing other sources, THE SPREAD OF ENUCATION, The Ministry of the Interior in recent report made to the Throne states: that there are at present two hundred boys' and girls' schools of the lower grade in the city of Peking, containing 8 total of 16,182 boys and 771 girls.
THE RECENT ARMS SMUGGLING CSAB, Tt appears that the skipper of the vessel which was recently captored near Amoy in the act of smuggling arne and aimnnpition joto Chinese territory has triened out to be x Japanese snbject. In view of this fact the Chinese authorities have handed the man over: to the Japanese Consul at Amoy for trial and sentence.
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