Wo had a mild sort of alarm about the Boxers the day before yesterday. Some fifteen thousand Hunan men were reported about twenty li away. The 6th Cavalry had a brush with a few of them the night before Inst and came in fall of an assurance that an attack was impending. There are about seven thousand troops here within call, so that we ought not to be anxious at all." Tt did not lock on the street Inst night as if there were any anxious ones anywhere,
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