The Tenghsien magistrate is home after three weeks at Lincheng. reports that the Chinese who were taken from the express have beer freed, but that no one knows, not even the robbers, how many ard still held by the old bands. He says that the robbers estimated that they should receive $1,000,000 for these various kidnapped Chin-
of these persons have been held for ese at any near Paotzeku. Soma two years, some are children who are hundreds of miles from home. This money prize at Paotzeku id what prompted the express outrage.
Peking, June 25.
The Chiaotungpu announces that all the Chinese passengers captured at Lincheng have been released.
Apparently numbers of prisoners, who have been held at Paotzeku a long time, have not been released, but only those who were captured at the same time as the foreigners have been freed.—Reu-
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