On retreating from the Swatow sector, the ald Fifth "Army split in two parts. The first is that which has now reached the Kuangtung-Wunan-Kiangsi frontier; the other went into a mountaines in the county of Hingning, a way there, waiting for a favourable opportunity to slip away noticed into Kiangsi. Unfortunately for these rebels, the first time they showed their faces, coming out of their mountain fastness into} the neighbouring county, they were spotted, and a strong force of regulars started an encircling movement which ended in the capture of the entire lot. The end of campaign came only last week.
'The troops which had been detailed to round up this second tion of Chui Kiang-tong's army are now free for other service and, marching down the East River, they' have freed the district lying between Waichow and Canton. of Pirates and bandits. Only ten days ago, steamers and passenger boats. were tied up; they had given up trying to get through the gauntlet of fire which the outlaw bands Jo down, To-day it is as safe to travel by water between any of the East River ports and the provincial capital as it is for one to walk about the streets of Canton.
Supported by gunboats, infantry have been moving. up the West River, simultaneously with the movements of the expeditionary forees in the North and East River areas. Just before Set out, the Association of Steam and Passage Boat Owners had'peti-
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.