The Archive · 1900

A Timely Gift

A Chinanfu dispatch states that Governor Yuan Shih-kai of that city upon receipt the other day of assurmees from the Commanders of the Allied forces operating in Southern Chihli, in the vicinity of the Shantung borders, that the Intter would not enter Shantung and would refrain from giving trouble to him, in consideration of his gued government of the province, ab ones eave orders to send something like 10,000 head of cattle and sheep for the use of the Allied troops concerned. This was a welcome gift to the Allies, as Chilli province has been by now almost otoly cleared of cattle, horses, mules,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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