Frou ocr Owy Comsesroxoexr Kueiyang, Kuei,, June 27, Our new Government hus demanded a contribution of $100,000 from the opium merchants of this city, in addition to a contvibutioa of $200,000 from the business men generally, and some of them, unable -er unwilling, to pay have been 'Placed under arrest, with the threat, it is said, that' they will be shot if the money demanded of. them is not forthcoming.
'The situation is once more very evitieal. Yesterday the city gates were closed, and to-day most of the shops are closed or partly a0, whic many private houses have' their Sront doors shut.
'There has been more Sehting, Ais time to the north and north: east, about ten iailes away, and many wounded men' have" been Drought into the city. Tt is evident that "the fighting has been very 'The' Government is, now issuing daily paper called "The people's Daily," and to-day it states that all the high military officers here are to go to Anshun (68 miles to the west) to meet General Lung Yun, Governor of Yunnan, who was sala fo be due to arrive there from Yunnan yesterday, for conference og to. plans for attacking Kuangs!. So General Li, the two Yunnan Generals and all officers of the Tuanchang grade and upward leave within the next fow days, Rnnounced, With Kueichow ani Szechuan troops so near this city, What can this mean?
Efforts are being made by business men and others to revive the "eld "Pao Chia Chuh," each family 0 find one man for the protection of the city against robbers and other Jawless men, and so preventing, if possible, the looting of the! ity, which is so much feared, It Is reported on the streets that the granaries of the Roman Catholic Church and wealthiest man in the city have been sealed by the autho We not been able to confirm this.
Tt is evident that the Yunnanese do not pay a great deal of respect to the orders of their superiors for in a number of eases they have occupied premises which hav military proclamations posted at their front doors, which forbid soldiers of any grade making use of such premises. And robberies! continue in the city, sometimes in daylight.
We hear too of several cities in the province being in the bunds of robber bands; of course, the roads are not safe to travel.
Altogether, conditions are very dad, and unless some way out is found, Kueichow will be in a bad sway indeed.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.