Show A MILITARY EXECUTION Tfow tlic Frcucli Do it in Aiiauiiu Some Cases Three Anamese notables were taken prisoners atThailTaguyen i and sentenced to be shot They had their i > hands tied all togetherwith a silk sash and were marched out of the citadel the Tuan Phu shrieking pitiously and trying to grovel before jiis guard In a way which would have been heartbreaking if it had not ben hopeless and therefore dastardly A box of explosive bulletahad beenfound in the citadel Explosive bullets were somewhat uncommon and one of the officers gave his revolver to a French sergeant i 1 ser-geant and askedhim to try the teffecton the prisoners Just when the party had got into the suburbs the sergeant while the men were still walking put the ier Solver behind the doctors ear and fired Threequarters of his head was blown away The other two in a last esperate struggle burst the silk scarf which bound them to the corpse and ran The TuanPhu was brought down with 1 a bullet between the shoulders and fell gurgling up blood from the mouth and nose But tJo court emissary who had been calmly scornful all this time ducked to the first shots and bolted round a corner down to the riyer There were a dozen men after him firing shofr after shot butj waS tooactive andzig zagged like a snipe Unfortunately the river was before him and the bank was some feet high where l lie struck it lie paused for a second before he I leaped and a French soldier who had t I counted on this brought him down Another An-other shot in the water finished him Then they went back to where the yuan Phu still alive was struggling convulsively convulsive-ly in the road It required five more shOtS to kill him Five minutes after an orderly came from the Generals nrters sayinglhat he wanted jie the prisoners I i prison-ers again to question theM |