The Taichow Fu public execution ound is situated close to the wall without the city on the bands of the river. Most of the criminala executed there nowadays are shou by soldiers, writes our Taichow eor= respondent under date of August 28. Hundreds flock together to seo the gruesome sight. Men and women, boys and girls without distinction of sex or age, Some of the specta tors, generally women and children, soon as the soldiers have retired, rash up to the bleeding bodies and soak up their blood in small pieces of cloth and even in pieces of bren T have myself met young men com ing home from an execution with, pieces of cloth, the size of a handkerchief, soaked in blood. This they take home, or the bread, burn and then carefully collect the ashes, and with the aid of ten or water swallow them. Many people regard them as possessing valuable curative pro perties in case of consumption,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.