The local mandarins have received news by wire from Lanchou, rid Peking, to the effect that the Mahommedans in Lanchou prefecture and north of that city, near the Great Wall, after having been quieted by General Tung Fu-hsiang, "the Kashgar Commander-in- Chief, last December, have once more risen against the authorities. The territorial forces in Lanchou were sent against the rebels who surrounded andi almost decimated them in some passes, although the Imperialists were better provided with firearms than the rebels. Lanchou City, which is the seat of the provincial government of Kansu, is re-' ported, in the same despatches, to be almost defenceless, nearly 4,000 of the: 6,000 troops which went to subdue the' rebels having been either killed or missing. In consequence of this, urgent telegrams have been received at Nanking and Wuchaeng from Lanchou asking for reinforcements to be sent to Kansu to assist in puttting down the rebellion. Viceroys Liu K'un-yi and Chang Chih-tung, it is reported, will send about 8,000 men to Kansu as the Kiang-ssu and Hupeh contingents. The other Viceroys and Governors within measurable distance of the disturbed province will doubtless also send their contingents to assist. A native paper reports that there was a rumour in Peking that the Emperor intended to entrust the suppression of the rebellion to Generals Sung Ch'ing and Nieh Shih-cheng, as General Tung Fu-hsiang had been found wanting.
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