Robber hunting on a large se: has now begun. While the visiting soldiers were here. none paid attention to such small trifles as suppressing robber bands. The Yunnan soldiers would not do the work and it came too near home for the Kuangsi men to attempt the task, jolly as so many of the latter recently come in from the Now, however, an effort is being put forth to arrest some. Whole villages are surrounded, and all the males: found with concealed weapons or fire-arms on their nersons or in their homes are bound and Jed off to the nearest gool, where after a short trial they mest the death penalty. Some are released when someone comes forward and guarantees their innocence, but it is feared that many less fortunate {men may be condemned innocently. when the rule of the road is "Today a man is a robber and tomorrow he is a soldier catching robbers,"' there are grave fears that much injustice is meted out to unfortunate men in the name of law.
Mr. C. P. Yin, managing direc-for, has offered a prize to the staff of the Shanghai-Nanking and_ the ways for the best paper submitted on the prevention of accidents,
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