Watts-Jones, British officers surveying for the proposed Yunnan railway (an extension of the Burmese aystem), have also arrived here from Talifu. They expected to meet Capt. Pottinger and party here. Capt. Pottinger left Chungking in the latter part of January with the intention of reaching Yunnaufir at the end of March, Up to the present, ho has only been able to reach Pichi, on The Kueichou bord 'Some distance from Pichi the country people assembled for the purpose of preventing his entrance into the province and. though he escorted by tilty Chinese soldiers it became necessary' to telegraph for assistance to the Governor of Kueichou.
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