The following telegram, alleged to have been sent by Tuan Fang, acting Governor of Shensi, was said to have been received on Saturday by local mandarins which we give for what it is worth, as contradictory Tumours as to the whereabouts of the Empress Dowager and Emperor are given misleading the troops of the Foreign Powers now searching for them. We translate below the telegram above noted "The Empress Dowager and Emperor ara now within a short di:
Shensi-Shansi borders, having rived on the 21st of August jen, in the prefecture of Note: Yangkaohsien town of Shansi, next to the district of Wanelruan, prefecture—of
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