Router's Peking correspondent! reports that a joint Chinese and foreign inquiry is to be held in respect of the lootings in Hupeh and that "it has been decided that the losses will be made good by Hupeh province." Whoever does ay, we trust that the Diplomatic jady will insist early and emphatically that the money is not to te! wrung out of the pockets of the! unfortunate people of Hupeh who! are themselves the worst sufferers by the depredations of the troops at Ichang and Wuchang. The latter were cither unpaid or undisciphued. Both causes seem to have contributed to the outbreak. In either case the Tuchun was responsible. There is no need to suggest that he put in his own pocket the money that should have gone to the soldiers, but he is directly responsible -for the subordinate' harpies of his yamen who did and should be made to pay, just as years ago the late Yuan Taotai was cashiered for the Shanghai riots. The growing lawlessness of all provinees is very serious, and the pre-
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.