The "Simwénpao" states that news has 'The sham fight was to be the first_part of been received from 'Tientsin that the the programme, and at 6 o'clock Viceroy machinery of one of the arsenals captured Chang, having' arrived on the ground, by the Allies last summer, subsequently ave orders for the battle to begin. The sold to an English firm' of that port troops were divided into two armies for something over Tls. 20,000, have been designated A Corps and B Corps. The sold for over is, 80,000 to the Peiyang aggressors were the A Corps, who were Government, i.e., Li Hung-chang, who in-on the other side of % stream and who, tends to refit the arsenal in question after immediately upon being ordere: t to begin the restoration of pence. the barile, began te cross the stream in two bodies, one by the pontoon brid;
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