Commenting upon the seizure of the'steamer Fei Ying by a Chinese torpedo boat recently, the local papers remark that the Navy has now come to take lessons from the Army—the soldiers practise banditry wherever they move, so the sailors practise piracy. The reports received here of this outrage indicate that it was of a particularly brutal character. The victims of the outrage among the Fei Ying's passengers were unresisting and were killed or wounded in cold blood. The Chinese marines after taking the passengers ashore handled them and their belongings very roughly and when they searched their persons they herded all the women into a compound and forced them to strip off their clothes, a measure more resented than the indiscriminate killing.
The "Y¥ih Shih Pao" reports the mutiny of a northern regiment in Wanhsien, Szechuan, on August 5, in the course of which there was much looting and some violence. The soldiers resumed their duties when the local merchants had raised $20,000 for them.
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