A report labelled "extra-reliable" tells us that the Empress Dowager wished to send the famous (or notorious) Yuan Shih-kai and his foreign-drilled braves to Jihchao, in Shantung, to chastise and expel the rude German soldiers, The Grand Council smelt ger and vigorously opposed the scheme as certain to provoke disaster, but assented to the movement of a large body of troops to Téchou so as to be prepared to resist any further Teutonic aggression, Later reports say that about 15,000 men have already left Peking for this purpose. German bar-parians, Leware ere it be too late
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