The Lincheng Affair It is satisfactory to learn that Peking has paid the "A" and "B" ists of claims for compensation in connexion with the outrage onthe Blue Express at Lincheng on May 1923, when 35 foreigners were arried ' of by bandits and held in Jcaptivity for varying periods. These two lists comprise compensation for ess of property, "for loss of life and Hiberty and for' personal <wiferings and indignities undergone by all the foreign travellers while in the hands of the brigands," the latter claims! being made out on an ascending tremely: likely. In any ease, there the amnesty, under which it his bboen clearly stated that M. Ostroun: oft is to benefit and his continued incarceration is nothing sho.t of a scandal which reflects badly on the repute of Marshal Chang Tso: lin's administration.
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