Pirates' Reprisal for Failure to Pay Protection Fee Canton, Apr, 18,
route from Kongmoon to Canto passenger boat Tung, was sunk at 2 o'clock this morning bomd placed in position by Porty people were drowned.
A letter-demanding a heavy protection fee was received by the ownfers of the boat a week ago and was ignored. The sinking of the vessel the bandits' reprisal, Later.
'A hundred passengers on the Tungki were saved by a following, Bandits on the West river are very active and a number of shipowners have received letters threa-toning that their ships will be sunk protection money" is rot paid.
Haichow, when all "chows," "us, "tings,"
ele, were abolished after the Revolution, was made a sion and. given the name of Tsckiang Hisien. Tis name" has now. been changed again, this time to Kaiyang-Kaiyang was many. years ago its name, so it goes back to its old, name, "It is "not unlikely that there are other hsiens Kueichow which have had one change of name Revolution and I imagine holds good. in other provinees, _s9 this fully justifies the Post Gftice being slow to change postal}!
From things I see and hear, 7 is to be feared that a scandalous amount of squeeze goes on in the Various hsiens, much of it no doubt unknown to the Magistrates..'The country people, in particular, unless they ave of the gentry class and; can report to the higher author! suffer greatly, probably more ce than in Manchu times, for there are now 0 many more "squeeze pidgin" opportunities, and, in, spite of much fine talk about the Three Principles and Kindred topics, it is evident that the old corruption (plus a lot of new!) is still rife.
So far as T know-—I am at pre-out of Kueiyang—likin and
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