DEATH OF A CHINESE GENERAL.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LI, Issue 5604, 10 February 1879, Page 7

DEATH OF A CHINESE GENERAL.

, The London and China Telegraph reports the death, under strange bmmmstances, of theOhinese general Lu-Sho}who isdescribedaa haying been recently ennobled for hie Victories overYakoob Khan. -This, description Sints to th<T deceased officer havihg been Liu n-t’ang, the conqueror of Earasnar, Eurlb, Kucb<s, and other cities in. Eashgam, and lately the General in commandon theKuldja frontier. The report, \rhioh is said tohave arrived at Euldja from, Aksu, states ‘thatfhaving completed his military dispositions on the Euldja frontier, it' occurred. to General Liu that the body of Takoob Ehan would be a fit trophy to forward to,-Pekin as evidence of the complete success vridbh had attended the Chinese arms. With this object in view he went to Kashgar personally to supervise the recovery and identification of the body. This done, he returned to hu.opmmand, anuon the way complained of illness which shortly developed , into a fever, produced by the unhealthy nature of his self-imposed task, and of which he died a few days afterwards. It is quite in accordanoe with Chinese custom to exhume tire body of a defeated rebel leader and to send his head as a trophy to Pekin { and it is probable, therefore, that the body of Takoob |Ehan was one object of Lin's search underground; but at thesame time jtt is not unlikely that he bad a more practical aim fa view, and that he to repeat at the capital the experiment , which he made at Eurld, where he dug up enormous quantities jof stores and supplies of every kind which had been buried by the flying rebels., The fact of his making excavations may also have furnished a convenient excuse for attributing Ids death to the cause assigned.' But hewas a successful General ruling over a conquered territory, and under such in Central Asia sudden deaths ore not unfre* qnent. '' '