Li Hung-chang recommends for rewards a number of officers who took part in the late campaign against the rebels in the North. the list contains the names of those who did geod service, whether in fighting or in bringing up supplies, and is supplementary to those already presented of generals and officials who especially distinguished themselves in the great vie-tories won.
'The rising, says the Viceroy, commenced nominally in a quarrel with' the Renan Catholics and the Mongols; but it turned into an attack upon the authorities and an indiscriminate slaughtering of all living creatures, As soon as he ard the news, the memorialist despatched horse and foot to the scene of action by Shihmen and Hsifengk'ou. The General-in-chief for the province was at the moment inspecting boxes of matches. winter outside the passes, they suffered terribly from the frost: but this deterred them no more than did the showers of bullets from the guns of the enemy. In the more hard-fought battles the carnage was very great: as is proved by the reports of the officers engaged in restoring order, who state that they have -buried twenty thousand corpses. Nor is all the praise due to those who were in the thick of the fights, for that they were able to advance as they did_was due to the energy and labours of their comrades, who were bringing up the necessary supplies in the rear. In making his recommendations for rewards the memorialist has been careful to select only those who have deserved them, and he has arranged their names according as their merits were greater or less.—Decree already published.
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