Since the publication of the order granting an amnesty to rebels and emphasizing that they will be treated precisely as ordinary citizens, ex-rebel leaders at various places appear to have availed themselves of this opportunity to regain their Jost liberty. Accounts of the offer to surrender by several leaders of some prominence have been produced. But ae the number of such cases is on the increase, only those concerning rebels more or lees known to this port will be cited.
Hsu Wei.i, once on the staff of Pah Wen-yn, was arrested and thrown into prison by order of Admiral Tseng some time during last autumn. His father has submitted a petition to Admiral Tseng to pray for hia pardon. In the petition the father says that he was the junior magistrate of the Feng-hsien district under Sungkiang when the revolution broke out; that he retired thereupon and had taken no interest at all in politics since then. His son, Hou Wei-i wae a graduate of the Military College of Chingkiang. After graduation, he went toa regiment at Peking for practical training, When Li Ching-hsi was Viceroy of Yunnan, his son was transferred to Yunnan for service.
At the end of 1911, his son returned home on leave, and indiscreetly accepted an appointment on the staff of Pah Wen-yn through the introduction of friend. Prior to the outbreak of the rebellion in 1913, his son had tried to dissuade Pah from joining it, but in vain. As his eon was a " suspect," he was caught at Shanghai on September 19 last year, and after trial was sentenced to imprisonment-of the first degree by the judge of the Military Court at the Arsenal.
The father in his petition then assures Admiral Tseng of his son's repentance and quotes the Presidential Mandate in asking for his pardon. He is willing to sign a bond offering his whole family to be punished in case his son should prove recalcitrant in future, etc.
Wang Ying+tsai, native of Nan-siang, was a school master at Shanghai for several years. He was elected Chairman of Educational Section in the Chinese Merchants'
Volunteer Corps, and he assisted
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