Tsacchuang, June 6.
While there is still an absence of definite news of the progress of negotiations, it is stated that they are continuing satisfactorily. The task of enrolling the bandits into the army is proving a long one, and until this has been accomplished it is not likely that there will be fresh developments.
A certain section of the bandits has already left Paotzeku, their departure presumably being winked at, but the irreconcilables are "still holding out against enlist ment. Beyond causing uneasiness, their attitude has had no effect as yet, but the authorities will feel happier, and more certain of the success of the negotiations, when the enrolment has been completed without interruption, This particular "group of bandits is in a small minority, but unfortunately they are the immediate guardians of the captives.
The food supplies"are once again being delivered without a hitch, letters received yesterday stating that the last consignment had arrived safely.—Reuter.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.