News from Chungking brought down by recent steamers states that Gen. Yang Sen and his troops have been able to settle down in the city once again. It appears that some of them had started to evacuate the city, but the opposing forces did not take action quickly enough, and so the northerners were able to get in again. Gen. Yang Sen has now promised the Chamber of Commerce that he will guarantee them six months' peace, if they will pay him the sum of $1,000,-
Meantime the forces who occupy Fowchow have become somewhat truculent. They send an armed party aboard each steamer as it arrives, and demand the right of search. ' On occasions they have accepted the captain's word that there was nothing to search for on board, and at other times they have almost insisted at the point of the bayonet that the ship should be searched. It is reported here to-day that the Shu-hun has been held up there, and the military will not allow her to proceed.
THE DANGERS OF TRAVEL, One district adjacent to Ichang has keen declared by the officials themselves so infested by brigands that it is not safe for foreigners to travel in it. Recently an official letter was sent' by the magistrate of Tangyang to and of the out-stations of the Church' of Scotland Mission, saying that he had received orders from his superiors that, on account of the capture of Father "Malotto and other outrages, if foreigners came within his district, he should be notified, and would' provide an escort.. One of thd women missionaries of that Mission was making arrangements to visit schools within the district of Tangyang, and the Consul was advised of her preparations. In accordance with the request of the magistrate, it was agreed that the lafly should travel under escort, and the Bureau of Foreign Affairs here was asked by the Consul to make the necessary arrangements. The reply was that there were not sufficient soldiers to -provide an escort stron, enough, and to send a wea. escort would be worse than useless, as the brigands might come in force and take away their arms. Foreigners are thus being deprived of the right to trave] in the interior of this country, and important work is subject to serious delay, and!
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Perhaps may be altogether stop-A month or two ago P'ao-ma-kang, in the Tangyang district, was attacked by brigands and' some people were killed. Also at Hoyung, in the same magistracy, there have been about 300 of them, and they have been carrying off some of the inhabitants and holding them for ransom.—Reuter.
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