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“...crowd and proceed to
the Yamen of the Magistrate with the
object of intimidating him into trying and
punishing the director of the orphanage.
Accordingly a crowd of soldiers and street
roughs assembled together in front of the
YamSn, where they remained a long time
clamouring and hooting, but finally dis-
persed without having dared to force their
way in. The same day, at about six oclock
in the evening, Lieutenant-Colonel Tsao
Kuang-tsS went to the quarters of the Colonel
in command, to whose battalion the deceased
officer had been attached, in order to give
him (the Colonel) an account of his having
been called in to restore order at the inquest.
Some of the Colonels men heard of his
being there, and agreed to waylay him on
his way out and give him a beating for having
lent his assistance to the civil authorities.
This came to the ears of the intended
victim, who was therefore afraid to venture
out. At midnight, however, he tried to
make his escape by a back way, escorted by
a couple of...”
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“...the embank-
ments and breakwaters, in the neighbour-
hood of the breach, as well as upon the
river bank higher up stream.
CONSPIRACY AT TARBAGATAI.
September 21st.The officer in charge of
the government at Tarbagatai reports the
discovery and suppression of an audacious
conspiracy in that town. The originators
of the plot were an Anhui man named Vo
Fu-lin, and Hu Lai-yu a native of Honan,
who had recently been an officer, but was
now unemployed, owing to the disbanding
last winter of the battalion to which he
belonged. Yo Fu-lin, having recently ar-
rived from Hi at Tarbagntai, happened to
meet Hu Lai-yu, who was an old friend of
his, and suggested to him that they should
do something together. There were at the
time in prison in Tarbagatai three soldiers
who had taken part in a military revolt and
killed an officer some time befre. They were
being kept in confinement in order that they
might be confronted with an officer who
was engaged in the same affair, but had
escaped to Kur-hara-usu...”
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“...which however was
successfully repulsed. A few days later a
number of houses in the village were set on
fire by rockets; and a fresh assault waa com-
manded. The assailants were much annoyed
by a flank attack from the savages in the
Pang-pang village, who advanced in large
numbers and with great courage. In spite
of this two of the enemys forts were carried,
but with a loss to the Chinese of sixty
killed and wounded. The Ta-chuang men
made their appearance as had been antici-
pated. But the battalion guarding the
road, which had taken up a position on the
bank of a stream, drove them back every
time they came on. Three days afterwards
General Wu arrived with his brigade
from the Pescadores, and landed imme-
diately. As they marched to the front they
were attacked by an ambush. The General
narrowly escaped being killed, but the
enemy were repulsed. About the same
time Admiral Ting, the comnjander of the
two northern vessels, arrived on the scene.
It was now recognized that the only way in...”
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