Tsaochuang, June 3.
'I'he four captives who returned yesterday, Ancira Verea, Theo Saphiere, Mddie Elias and Jerome Henley, bring back fairly cheerful news from the bandit camp. They are all agreed that conditions are better than they have been since they were captured, a state of affairs due largely, if- not entirely, to the unflagging efforts to get proper provisions, supplies of all sorts, and news up to the camp.
Recently, probably owing to the favourable nature of the negotia-
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