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Chaton, June 18. To-day the Nationalist Govern ment informed the Provincial Government that hereafter all

travellers of foreign race who en- ter regions infested by bandits or pirates shall be the concern of the Province. The National Govern. rent-washes-its-hands-of-vespa sibility in such cases, and will per provide escorts or not, just as it

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This new ruling is of great im

Canton, June 18...

Canton Jane 18. Tang Sheen, a very wealthy re- | Because of repeated uids by sident of Canton with a home in large bands of bandits upon the To Pow Tai Street, in the west-rich and populous city of Fatshan, ern suburbs, was kidnapped yes. The Provincial Government has terday morning, together with announced that the Fatahap Munk- servant, a necromancer, who had cipality will be entirely rebrganis- gone with him to a tract of landed, Tung, to inspect a site which he near the village of Loong Ngan contemplated buying for a burial plot.

The servant was released to- day, and returned to the family bearing a demand from the bandits for the payment of $3,000 ransom.

CANTON MUTINY.

portance to foreigners who have argent business in lawless regions, because the Provincial Goverchent has already nobified foreigners that they are not vited t enter" sach regions. Mageover the Nationalist Government in to-day's communication urges the Provincial Government to adhere to this policy, į which is virtually a declaration of || (From Our Own Correspondent.) disavowal of responsibility in case foreigners are subjected to violence.

ARMED GUARDS..

PROTECTING CRAFT AGAINST PIRATES.

A NEW ARRANGEMENT.

(From Our Own Correspondent,)

TWO DIVISIONS REFUSE TO GO NORTH.

Canton, June 18.

Ng Kassing, the present. Mayor, has been appointed Diverlor of the new Bureau of Civil Afair of Fatshun

The Police there have been so in-

cope

efficient, and so helpless to with the bandits, that the whole force is to be reorganised.

The former Fatshan Bureaï of Public Safety has bech abolished. and the new Bureau of Civil Affairs will take over its duties temporarily. pending the appointment of a new " Chief of Police and the reorganisa-i tion of the whole Department.

LIGHTNING'S, TOLL.

FOUR IN IOWA.

Chiengo, June 14.

Mutiny has reached its ugly ONE DEATH IN CHICAGO AND hend in the Nationalist Army right in the heart of Canton where nearly 4,000 troops, flatly refuse

A severe electrical storm in the to move up to the Northern front because their pay is more than Middle West last night took a toll three months in arrears. And, of nine lives." One person was oddly enough, the mutinous forces killed in Chicago by lightning, and are from the island of Hainan, our met death in Iowa from phas¦ where the people are murmuring cause. openly against the Government, The storm in Town was especially and where "open rebellion may severe, 30 people having been in- begin at any time.

jured besides the four dead.

DeaMoines had the heaviest rain- of the Fear-Associated

The disaffected troops now here are the Tenth and Twelfth Divi-

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Cantor, June 18. Owners of launches and motor boats operating in areas where the pirates are strong have con- cluded an agreement with T. V.sions of the Fourth Army. These Press. Soong Finance Minister, under two divisions, brought here under which they will pay the National the command of General Cheung ist Government the same amount Fat-fui, have refused to break of money they have been paying camp and bourd trains for Shia- as plackmail to the pirates to pass kwan, and since their number is their ships unmolested.

so large they are not only a cause for keen local anxiety, but their non-arrival in the Ping-shek area, where they are counted upon as reinforcements, vil have an up setting effect upon the campaign plans of General Tang Shang-chi, Generals Perturbed, The Fourth Aring is command-

In return for these payments the Canton Government will assure the boats adequate armed guards.

This new arrangement will bring into the Government Tren most of this will have to be used sury over $50,000 a month, but in paying for the guards furnished by General Lee Tani Suum, and ed to the boats, and in raids upon to-day at noon he and General Cheung Fat-fui called a meeting Pirate headquarters,

of alt officers of both divisions at Yuck-han Railway station "hall. Both Generals made long speeches, outlining the reasons for the

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Canton, June 18. Councils of discretion have

authorities have decided not to open and formally dedicate the newly widened and paye Shaker on June 23-the anniversary of the Shakee-Shameen shootings of

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