For a time, following the inauguration of the campaign to round up all those who carry concealed weapons, the number of crimes in which violence is used decreased, but the pendulum has now swung the other way, and daily it seems as if one robbery at least must be perpetrated which ends in a cold-blooded murder. Most of the bandits are giving their attention exclusively to shops, and invariably bind and gaz the shop employees jand generally shoot one or more of them. The circumstances of sever: of these robberies show that police could have either caught or killed the criminals had they had nerve enough, but the policeman on the beat never fails to run for reinforcements, and there must be an assemblage of a regular army-of police before the affeers of the Needless to say, very few of them of them accused him of trying tohave been arrested.
Chinese reach Hongkong. In presence and hearing, several] lof these men called this gentleman fan imperialist and a "dog runner of imperialism," and other such] names.
Tt was somewhere about 10 o'clock on Friday morning, when young man who spoke English en-Yered "the foam, and told the prisoners thatthe American Vice-_ Consul was waiting upstairs for him, and ho accordingly left with the Vice-Consul, accompanying him back to Shameen, taking with him the three parcels which had been the cause of his predicament.
This American, we understand, has made a full report of the whole affair to the American Consul-General, and it is believed that protest will undoubtedly be lodged Jwith the Chinese authorities.
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