Ting-an and Yii-lu report particulars of "further victory which the Government troops have gained over the rebels in the Chaoyang district. It appears that the Ch'aoyang rebels found their way to Heich'engtzu which they made their head quarters but from which they were driven on the 10th inst. by the General Commandant Feng Sheng-a, assisted by Colonel Ch'eng Nansen and Brigade-General Keng Feng-ming, who hemmed them in on three sides and utterly defeated them. The remnant of their forces entrenched themselves in the public offices at Peitzufu and kept up a most determined resistant About a thousand of them were sial and several of their leaders and ninety others taken alive. General h was similarly successful at Tuchangtzu, as was General Chang Yung-ching at Shih-fo-kou. The former killed two of their leaders and took thirty prisoners, and the latter took three of their leaders whom he summarily executed. The high atticers concerned are hereby directed to take immediate advantage of the terror that the news of our victories will infuse into the minds of the rebels and to send out all their available troops to act in ce-operation with the Chihli forces in speedily exterminating the insurgents.
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