REBELLION, According to an Tmperial edict of the U7th instant wired to this port, Tung Fa-hsiang, Generalissimo of the Imperial forces in Kansu, reports successes againat the Tungani rebels in that province, and apparently this rebellion is now on. its Jast lees, It will be remembered that in November and December last this General succeeded in raising the siege of Hochou and Haining after a number of fiercely contested battles before the walls of the former city. Here he also succeeded in killing some of the chiefs and this really broke " rebellion which at one time was serious enough to foreshadow the possible installation of "large avd powerful Mahommedan kingdom in the north-western de pendencies of the Empire. "'Aftertheraising, of the siege of Hsining," continues General Tung's memorial, "General Ho Té-pino was sent with a strong brigade of cwalry to drive the rebel bands scattered about the vicinity of that city into their strongholds at Chiangyiasui, Tungkout'an, Machiat'an, ete., on the road to Shuchou near the Great Wall, General Ho was at once joined by General Teng Tstng, Brivadier-General of Hsining, with all his available forces, and a series of small but sanguinary battles were fought with the rebels near Hsining on the 16th and 17th of January last. The rebels being finally driven to their fastnesses, Generals Ho and Teng began the next day (18th) to storm Chiang: yiasui, the first of the fortified villages held by the rebels, AM this and next day the Tmperial forces, gallantly led by General Ho. furiously storme! the rebel positions, and although twice severely wounded this officer refused to retire and have his hurts properly dressed until he had succeeded in capturing all four of these villages which formed a group mutually supporting each other. At the last of the four villages named Yangmaokou, the principal chief of the western section of the rebel forces, named Mullah Miao Yakub, with a strong band of followers, made his last stand and fought with all the energy and courage of despair until shot by a bullet from the Imperial ranks. Encouraged by the death of their inst determined opponent the Imperial troops swept all before them and no quarter being given the rebels. perished toa man. The fall of these villages raised the siege of two Buddhist fortified towns near them and the country for a hundred miles was soon cleared of every armed Mahommetan. There now only remain a f-w fortified towns north-west of Hsining still held by the rebels, who are now thoroughly disheartened and fleeing to the Mongol grass country to the north and west of Hsining.
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