Mr. Garstin, the British Assessor at the Mixed Court, has consulted with Magistrate Kuan Chun as to whether it could be arranged to deport those hardened convicts who have upon their release and banishment, almost immediately returned to the Settlement to resume their criminal career, to a remote region from which it would be difficult for them to return here. After conferring with the Shanghai Prefect and the Judge and Procurator of the City Court, it was found that proposal could not be it would be against the present criminal code to do 80. The question was then referred to Peking for solution. But, in the meantime, the number of such convices who are kept in the custody of the Settlement authorities pending a decision has already reached 21. Since the prospect of an early solution is not in sight, the foreign authorities have arranged with Magistrate Kuan Chun that he should prepare a list of these criminals, setting forth their names, azo, native place, number of convietion, number of occasions on which they have been banished and returned, and send them to the City authorities on Monday, February 1, to be there kept in prison until the manner of their disposal is decided by the Central Government.
Feb, 5
Internal Disaffection, General Cheo Huan, who has been appointed to Szechuan with sealed orders, has left the Capital. He had scarcely proceeded far on his journey when he was assailed by son three different oc-
In every case, the would-be assassin or assassins were caught and they confessed to their having been commissioned to take the General's life by the authorities in Szechuan.
The Government has ordered the despatch of troops to Szechuan to enforce its authority. It is said that the Government has three tus district in effect as toLows:—
An view of a junction being effected between the Shangnai-Nanking and the Shanghat-traagchow-Ningpo railways, lands situated in the neighbourhood of the junction Jine may ye requisitioned by the Government for urns purpose. In order to prevent people raising the value of these lanas and offering obstacles, the Shanghai and Paoshan prefects and the Land purvey Office are inneted to permit neither transac: tions in land near this line, nor transfer of ownership, nor stamping of title-deeds, pending the conclusion of purchases of land by the railway authorities. The tipao are warned against signing or stamping any new title deeds during the same period.
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