Within the past few weeks there has been a certain amount of political unrest. in this province. It appears that the Shensi "chieftains" (not to give them the opprobrious epithet of bandits which might perhaps be as justly applied to their antagonists now in office) have come to some sort of understanding, and have divided into two bands to act together against Kansu. From their point of view, it doubtless seems "pity that a province like ours, which has been heaping up wealth in an unostentatious way for the past few decades, should not be deprived of its superfluous money. At any rate, they decided to make the attempt, One party, consisting of some thousands of men, travelled by the main road, which runs—through Pingliang, from Sianfu to Lanchow. But the general in command of the forees there seems to have been a match for them all, In all, five engagements are said to have been fought, and as a result the invaders have been driven back beyond the passes that bar the way into Kansu,
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