Seventy Men Gone off to Lead a Bandit Life Hongkong, Sept. 10.
The "Wah Kiu Yat Po," a Chinese paper, reports that 70 soldiers bo-longing to a "ied" body of s0.u1srs billeted -in the neighbourhood of Yioping, near Swatow, on Scptember 2, after a quarrel with some ren-commissioned officers, revolted, shot three N.C.0.'s and released twenty Reds who had been arrested. The moutincers then cleared away, taking refuge in the mountains.
Little importance the affair—Reuter. tive in China of the Metropol Cammell Carriage Wagon & Fine ance Ca,, jumped into the river in attempt to save a_ Chinese peasant who had fallen off Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co.'s hullo which is moored off Hstakuan, Me. Fraser was returning front Pukow in one of the Indo-China steam launches when the incident happened. There was a strong current running at the time and, as is always the case near-the hulks, there were many—treacherous eddies, Mr. Fraser reached th man after some diffeulty, but unfortunately was unable to support him until the arrival of assistance as, owing to the drowning man's struggles and the force of the undertow, he was himself in danger of being pulled under. Mr, Fraset was got on board the launch in an exhausted condition after being in the water about 15 minutes. The correspondent who sends us this affair. a reas of the
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