The Viceroy Li draws special atten to the services rendered at Port Arth Talien Bay, and Weihaiwei by the follo ing military.otticials: Sung Ch'ing, Military Commander-in-chief of Szechuan Liu Sheng-hsin, the Brigadier General of Hopeh in Honan; Huang Shih-lin, holdy the brevet rank of Commander-in-Chief, and a Lieutenant-Colonel named Chang Wen-hsuan, all of whom have been most active in constructing forts and in pressing on coast defence preparations generally.. Sung-ching is recommended to the Board for the bestowal of a special reward, and it is ushed that buttons of the first elsss should be ferred upon the two other officers mei tioned. 'Three.other officials who receive special mention are Kung Chao-vit, an expectant Taotai who has been in' charge of the works connected with the dock at Port Arthur, Wu Tung-pin, who has superintended the construction of forts on Tw-lien Bay, and Lo Feng-lu, an expectant Twotai connected with the Naval department at Tientsin, all of whom are to receive three steps of commutative rank, '22nd October.
No papers of interest, 23rd October.
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