Watt, were murdered near Mienehubsien in Szechuan, On September 23 Miss M. Davroch sua Miss M. R. Sharp were Kidnapped at Chowkiakow in Honan and were not freed until October 25, after the greatest sufferings. On, October 23 bandits sacked Kuanting on the Po-Han Railway, despite the boastful scheme of railway guards, which Peking hastened to announce in pation of the Lincheng Note, 'A German missionary was carried off in Hunan on October 17; a French priest from Changli near Chefoo, on November 1 and Mr. Schmalaried, on the November 13. The latter was rescued early this year; the two former are apparently still durance. On December 27 two sionaries Mr. and Mrs, Hoff were shot and badly wounded at saoxang, in Hupeh. and another mistionaiy, Mrs. Kuen, carried off by bandits Firing on ships on the Upper Yangtze attained a quite unprecedented degree. In this respect the political troubles of Szechuan (see below) played, aps, greater part than out-But the result is the same. The worst excesses were the attack on the Alice Dollar at Ichang on July 31; and that on the Tyang Maru when the captain was killed and the chief] engineer and chief officer carried off: they are still in captivity. Ta the case of the Alice Doltar, the U.8.8, Isabel was luckily at hand to give help: the chief miscreant was captured, brought down the river and handed over to the Tuchun of Hupeh. The American Admiral has since introduced special measures for the in protection of-shipping on the Upper Yangtze—hardiy in keeping with the benevolent fatuities of the, Washington Conference, but most salutary.
All these cases of outrage are alike distinguished by the supine indifference of the provincial an' district authorities. The case of Miss Darroch and Miss Sharp is specially bad, no move of. any kind being made to rescue them until a week after their capture. The condition of Honan is a grave blemish on the reputation Marshal Wu Pei-fu, who. with the best troops in' China, suffers his province to be the worst in respect of brigandage.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.