The following batch of native official news is to hand A French force of 2,000 men which arrived recently ab Téchou were the recipients of a present of cattle and sheep from Governor Yuan Shih-kai of Shantung who also gave a daily allowance of 300 cash to each soldier during his stay in the vicinity—News lias been received at Ysingkiangfu, Grand Canal, to the effect a small force of Allies reconnoitring the Honan borders had already arrived ay Weihuifu in Honan, and the high provi ial officials in Kaiféngfu, the capital, are busy preparations for the defence of the A Northern dispatch—states that a large force left Chéntingfu, Chihli, the other day, passed the district city of Lanch'éng, and thence westwards from Shuntéfu, with the evident intention of entering the Honan—_borders.-~The "Rescue" corps from Kiangsi and Anhui provinces which have hitherto been excambing outside the Tungkuan Pass have received orders to proceed at once to Weihuifu prefecture, Honan province,—The Fukien province " Rescue" corps, under General Ts'a0 Chih-chung, started from Tsingkiangpu on the 15th ultimo en route for Honan provines and arrived within the borders on the 3rd instant.—It is believed that the principal object of the Allies in going to Honan province is to prevent the dispatch of immense quantities of supplies and money from the Southern and Central provinces accumulated in Honan from getting to Hsian for the uso of the Refugee Court, and if possible to capturd them. These supplies were originally intended to be sent to Shansi to the Court at Taiyuanfu, but they were stopped owing to the further flight of the Court to Hsian, the best route to that city from the south being the highway commencing at Hankow. The transference of the said supplies to Hankow had however to be delayed owing to the operations of the Allies on the Honan and Shantung borders. A Peking dispatch reports that Count von Waldersee is now living in the quarters where the Emperor was confined by the Empress Dowager after the coup tat in 1898. The Count first occupied the Temple of the Dynasty when H.E. arrived at Peking.
18th Nov.
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