Border Administrators Short of Cash and Feeling the Cold:
Province Against Szechuan Two robbers from Honan have Iniquitous New Tax Marauder in Hunan just narrowly escaped arrest in Hankow. They came down the Fae Oce Own Cossrsrosvest: railway from Honan, and were nowt Ove OWN Connssroncent, spotted on the train by an army Tachienlu, Sze, Feb. 24. Lieutenant at Hua Yuan who re-Wachang, Mar.
On Sunday we had a hail storm cognized them. Thig, officer tele-Fighting has broken out in Hunan, Yesterday it snowed all Fast graphed news of their arrival to between the Tupan, Chao Hong-ti night it snowed all night, and to-day Hankow, and they were traced to a and the Szechuan General Hsiung it has snowed all day, and there is. [certain hotel in the city. After this, KebAvu, The latter has made his every prospect that it will snow all orders were given for a de headquarters at Changteh for the to-night. And when it will stop fof 20 soldiers in mufti snowing no one seems to know. last few months, and it was suspect with pistols to go and <a that "his object was an attack However, we have made some pro-two robbers. But warning of the ress in discovering, the cause of the upon Hupeh. "His forces have been approaching danger reached, the! resent cold winter and the source making themselves very objection feriminals in time, and they were! of all the snow. When the 3rd ible in Changteh, levying toll upon fable to make their escape. It is not! the merchants, robbing' the small Army was here last December it known how the warning reached! disturbed a "Good Tuck mountain: shopkeepers, and 40 9n according to them, but one is rather tempted to che usual custom. Now trouble has jeairn" overlooking the city, and th-think that, while these 20 bold (Zhi-Dag) the local deity,' to show. broken cut owing to w dispute be-fellows were putting on their dis-his displeasure has caused it to be two of Hxiung's officers, Tang, guises and testing their dangerous very cold and snowy ever since, 19 and Ho Lung. The latter!
Weapons, some-one ran off and has obtained the support of the Some days ago the lamas from! earned a few dollars by giving time-_ Hunan Tupan, who has now ex-the Dorje-dra lamasery spent sev-information to the robbers, and. eral strenuous days at a little shrine pressed his intention of driving thus the hardy enterprise' was: Isiung and his forces out of Hunan, on the hill-side. For two solid days brought to naught, order to prevent his Western they blew their big ten-feet brass victory from being "squeezed to Robbers Smartly Caught trumpets, beat furiously at thei pulp like ice." akin drums and played skilfully ea A different story comes of a2 heir musical cornets, but still the The Hupeh Tupan, Hai Yao-nan, arrest on the Han River. Last at present neutral, but is taking snow continued to fall and the cold week, a company of robbers array measures to avoid Hsiung Keh-wa wind blew till the poor lamas gave fed to hold up a launch near Hat with his. troops being pushed over up in despair. Apparently the New. chuan. The attack was planned in. the border into Hupeh. With this Army, when they disturbed the the" now customary manner, the "Good luck cairn" removed some Inject in view, there has been a. small Reet of sampant readjustment of the forces in West precious metal and an old garment wait at a certain point Hupeh. The third regiment of the belonging tothe King of Chala. the river, and were prepared to Second Mixed Brigade, under Mao This outrageous act of sacrilege attack the Iaunch as toon as it!
Yin-chang hax been pushed forward very much displeased the local deity arrived. But this time, the affeer rom Oh-Ch'ih-K'eo to. Kung and to show his displeasure he has {in command of the soldiers stationed The 15th Brigade of the 8th Di sent an unmeasured quantity of in Hanchuan got wind before-hand ion haa been moved from Tehang hail, snow and cold, rich and. poo of the proposed exploit. He got tltke "have suffered from his erne hihsheo and Chienli. 'Two bat-another launch, placed a company of Jes of artillery from the 25th dispensation, Now that we ha his own men well-armed on board, n have been moved up from discovered the ensue of the prose! jand sent it in advance of the daily'
chang to support the latter. It cold spell, and the lamas and the Munch from—"Hsientacehen, The evident that if Hsiung Keh-yn big. drums have demonstrated thei robbers saw the smoke from the joes try to enter Hupen he will get inability to remove the snow storm funnel as the launch began to come land bring milder weather, there ix warm reception, and it is high round the bend, and without hesitanothing left now but to' wait till time that this robber-general waz tion left their hiding-place and pre-Teall with, the "Zhi-Dag" relents. pared to surround and capture their The continued snow and cold hax Strike of Tobacco Co.'s Workers Tooked-for prey. But to their sur-incidently sent up. the price of they were met with rifle-fire A strike has taken place of the everything bey the reach of the: and found that, instead of the usual irish American Tobacco Co.'s Wood, rice and all, are no: non-resisting passengers, they had oer.
Smployees" "at Chive Keoe, only' scarce but exceedingly dear northern section of the native} lis, time run up against a ghting add to the present discomfort portion of Hankow. sion, it we Tm their and dissatisfaction the authorities pany has two factories in Han-lover-come the whole gang of them. fare asking for more money to con: Kow, an old one in the S.A.D.
Six were killed and some 80 taken' tinue the present internecine strug ind 'n new one at Chiiao K'eo. The chuan jin their gratitude have|!* daily becoming intolerable. isonet. The inhabitants of Hi gle and the burden upon the people cause of the strike is alleged oppress sion of the workmen by tw6 of the collected and bestowed upon their Mar. 2 foremen, Messrs. Cheng and Hsiao, strikers are demanding the di protectors a large reward of money.
Snow fell heavily during the of both the foremen, the week-end and this morning. We reinstatement of several workers have now had this white mantle have been dismissed, and the abolition of certain new regulations
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