A dispatch from Chéating, Chibli province, states that a small body of French troops arrived at that city on the 17th ultimo. they stopped only two days and returned to Paoting with some French priests who had been formerly besieged near that city by Boxers last summer. Nous from Shansi_ and Honan states that when the Foreign troops arrived at Chen the mandarins of the tw. provinces all prepared to make resistance, should the allies force their way int" their f.
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