(1) Li Chao-hui is transferred to be senior Recorder of the Supervisorate of Instruetion of the Heir Apparent and Wu Shu-mei is "ppointed Junior Recorder.
Chih-tung, acting Viceroy of riy provinces, reports the going into mourning, owing to the death of ihis mother, of Ku" Pao-ch'ang, Brigadier. General of the Shouch'on military circuit of Anhui province, and requests that the said Brigadier-General be permitted to resign his substantive appointments and other po-ts in accordance with official etiquette. Kuo Pao-ch'ang's prayer is granted in the first case, but owing to the importance of his other post as Commandant of the Chosheng Brigade in Anhui, we command hhiun to retain this appointment and continue to keep close supervision over the training and discipline of the said Brigade in order that it) niay not lose its efficiency through the absence of its Commandant.
(3) We have "received the following report with reference to the campaign of Wei Kuang-tao, Governor-designate of Shensi, against the Mahommedan rebels in Chiuanpei, near Hsiving, Kansu province. Liu T'éng-chino, (Liu the Flying Dragon) the Chief of the Ch'uanpei Mahommedans having gathered a band of _desperadoes at the fortified village of Suchiap'a of effecting " junction tribe or class of Mahommedans) of Hsich'uan, it was determined by Wei Kung-tao to destroy this nest of rebels at Suchiap'u and accordingly, having combined his forces under General Yang Hsin-chai with the brigade of General Teng Tseng, Brigadier-General of Hsining, a forward movement was than made on the 22nd of February last upon the said village. The attack was made on two sides of the village, but in spite of the bravery and
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