Tseng Kuo-chuan reports that in view of the distress im Chibli and round about an Peking he is causing 300,000 winter garments to be made for the suberers. Of the 200,000 are for the Shuntien Prefecture and 100,000 for Tientsin, Orders have been issued directing the C.M.S.N. Ca. to take them up as sven as they are ready.
Fifty thousand of them are completed and on the point of being shipped.—Let the Yamen concerned take note
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