It is rumoured thst a large army of Russians are on their way to North China.
The Russians are making every preparation to remain all winter.
The Peiho is going to be kept free from ice with Russian ice-breakers.
The Germans have brought provisions for six months.
It is rumoured that the Russians have now the upper hand in Manchuria and that they are marching westwards, The railway between Shanhaikuan and Kinchou is not destroyed; trains are being run by the Chinese. The Kaiping mines 0 being worked by Chinese. Are the ing to seize them The Peitang till untaken; the Russians state that as long as they remain quiet nothing will bedene. The Peitang Forts, however, command the railway and could do a great deal of damage. Lutai, where the big military camp is, is full of soldiers.
The French at Yangtsun have nearly 200 men down with dysentery; they report the enemy a few miles away on the West.
The enemy to the W. and S. of Tientsin do not seem inclined to advance.
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