12 Rules of Good Behaviour Kingmen Sacked by Horde of Published by Nanking Bandits Nanking, April 20.
Mankow, Apr. 25.
The Ministry of Interiot has drawn up the following 12 rules of conduct for the people and is Instructing all Provincial Governments to proclaim them to the ym public:
I motional humilis Give "up all superstitions belies.
Baiuand repair roads and highways, Plant micro trees, 7 Abstain from drinking, rambling and other evil Rac bits.
Be diligent and thrifty.
Take rhyueal exerci, Learn "how to tessd and. write. Abolish the custom of fevt-bind-
Cultivate habits, of cleanliness and follow the rules of sani int 'The' Provincial Commissioners of Civ Administration are instructed Refugees arriving here to-day r9- port that Kingmeii, in West Hupeh has been sacked iby a horde of Sanaits, with om appalling loss of It is estimated that in the King-men disteiet alone 5;000 persons: of all ages have been slaughtered.
'The identity of the marauder; not clear, but it is stated that they are deserters' from the army combined with members-of the "Divine Society," an organization somewhat Reater, imilar' to the "Red Spears."—
Gen, Meng En-yuan, former Tuchun of Kirin, has given $100,000 for the establishment of a number of free schools in Tientsin. to devise ways to assist the ome in carrying out, the above plan, civie and social improvement.—Min,
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