Our local dailies announce that Muh Ying-chow, the robber chief. whose men robbed me and carried me off. last year: (with his connivance), has, been allowed enlist,. with, his. men,., in thé|2otb Army Corpg ander General Chairman, and will soon be here. It would be interesting if we were to meet, say at dinner! It may. be asked, why should the Government take such men into governniient service? Not improbably, it is dificult to suppress him' ahd if he were to go to another province, Kweichow would lose all the arma" ment they possess, whereas it may. be: possible, later on, to give Muh. an appointment not including the control of troops (the late General Chow Hsi-cheng was quite successful in this sort of thing) so deprive ing him of the power to do any: damage. To us it may sound a strange way of dealing with such men, but Chico is "cui gencria" in this as in many things. I shall not be at all surprised to meet number of erstwhile captors who; so very thoroughly cleared me of; all T had with me on that journey. Well, TIN not bri up against them, it was their "profession Since the 10th inst., a provincial Industrial Exposition has been open. every day, but I have not yet been able to attend it, though I hope to do s0 before long. I am told that each of the 81 Asien in the province is sending exhibits and that. not all have yet arrived. I shall write about it after I have paid a visit,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.