If thenew that the British, American, and Japanese troops are at T'ingkuan, where the three provinces meet, which I have just heard, is at all correct, then the Empress ought already to been her way to Chengtu. As we have had no information to this effect we must, although we should delight to believe it, consider the reports of the advance of the Allies as rather premature. Again we hear that T'ai-yuan has been taken, another statement should very much like to believe, bub we await confirmation. Our news is, usual, a month old, so we are quite in the dark as to what is going on in the world.
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