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With few exceptions the payment of the troops is months in arrears. led to outbreaks in many parts of China on the part of the soldiery, who no longer carry off their loot and disband themselves, but return to barracks and remain a terror In one month ten such outbreaks to those for whose defence they should exist. occurred in the single province of Hupeh, leading to looting and burning of cities and towns. The worst case was that which occurred at the treaty port of Ichang, and has led to claims on the part of foreign merchants alone for over 1,000,000 dollars damages. On this I shall have the honour to report separately.
The year on which China has entered thus opened with black prospects. Under such conditions, questions such as the recovery of rights conceded to foreigners, the extension of education, the improvement of communications and the development of the judiciary--which still occupy the minds of many Chinese-have only an academic value. The one problem of which the solution is a prerequisite-the destruction of China's military vampires-continues to grow more and more portentous.
I have, &c,
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57Hway Tun
Sun, Wi, and Ting compies the
Tang comprises the Military Gar!", which now
appears to be failing
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