On the 13th instant, General Chang Fu-lai, Tuli of Honan, returned from a visit to Chengchow and Loyang, and gave out the welcome news that all the foreigners had been released from the hands of the bandits.
Now that the situation is clear-ting, one obtains more accurate knowledge of the causes leading up to the seizure of the foreigners, sand the means.whereby their re-ease was effected.
The backbone of the bandit organization are the defeated. soldiers of Chao Ti and Chao Chieh. Thou sands of hangers-on, mostly young men and the scum of the districts through which the bandits passed, attached themselves to the different groups, so that probably not one half of the ultimate total were: soldiers. There were no high military officers among their leaders, though several sergeants and others, whose names are known, retained a sort of loose -Jeadership over the remnants of the companies they formerly controlled. It is known for a fact -that the Chao brothers had nothing to do with the movement.
Chao; Chieh, whom his brother, Chao Ti, Alames for the mistake made last May, has been thrown off by his family, and is now in Mukden.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.