That their posit i enviable one is shown from what happened outside all the district hsien prisons only two or three weeks ago. At that' time the officer, who passes sentence on these ruffians, made a tour of this part. From ten to twenty of these crime mals in each of the hsiens near by were lead out and executed. In this city there were 19 taken out} unto the public street, and, under the gaze of the usual, motley crowd, the big knives were brought into play. Through some bungle one of the poor wretches did not die on the spot, and was carried off by his family still living.
From Wenhsien City, on the site fof an old,, unused. road has-been!
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.