An Incident near Hsuchowfa:
Arrest of a Foreigner: Pei-taiyo Peaceful From Our Own Correspondent, Peitaiho, Aug. 2.
Your correspondent and wife lett our station on the 16th and arrived at Peitaiho to attend the Conference held here under the auspices of the Stewart Evangelistic Fund. At Kueitehfu we heard of a so-called hotel, under foreign control at Hsuchowfu, which was a welcome piece of news, for it is hard to get satisfactory accommodation there overnight; but the Chinese friend who told us also said that there was suspicion that this was not the nicest class of hotel and was even suspected of being run as a blind to the principal business of smuggling opium, morphia and arms.
When our train pulled into Tangsan, the half-way city to Hsuchowfu, there was considerable excitement, and a nicely-dressed Italian, with hards tied together and also tied to two Chinese soldiers, was put on the train, then released from the two. soldiers and his rope tied to the baggage rack. At the next stop, quite a crowd rushed on the train, mainly soldiers, to see the sight. Their officer told them to take a look and get off. This man had been found in Tangsan the day before with a box of arm. There was a great crowd in Hsuchowfu to see us arrive, and I learnt that the other men of the fake hotel were being held under guard and that all were being carried to Shanghai on the 18th. I wondered if this was a part of the or ganization being ferreted out by the U. S. Court officers. I greatly rejoice in this piece of work and hope that it will be successful in the highest degree. Each of the bullets sold by these, our fellow-countryman, for -the love of money, is liable at any time to be put into my heart or that of any foreigner in the interior where so many bandits are operating.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.