Tientsin, was received in audience by Hix Majesty this morning in the Grand Council Chamber. possible. Sze-fu, however, knowing prosecute the campaign as vigorously as
that the enormity of his crimes against his Emperor precluded him from any expectation of mercy, persuaded his people to fight on and' defend the passes leading to their temporary stronghold in the sand hills.
General Niu now marched to P' force the passes xnd on the 29th of the month began his attack wiarching by éhelons of squares. His own troop led the advance on the right having the half regiment of cavalry under Colone!Sieh Tien-li, marching in echelon, in his immediate rear. On the left was General P'eng's cavalry regiment, and marching in éhelon in his rear was the foot battalion of Colonel Lo Pting-an. Sending from the beginning a perfect storm of bullets into the ranks of the defenders in the passes our troops rushed onward to the attack, and at last after a desperate battle lasting from 8 o'clock a.m. to 42 noon, took possession of the entrance to one of the passes, killing nearly 1,000 of the enemy in this battle. The rebels also lost two leaders; one slain in battle(Mabommed Chia-san) and the other captured alive called Mahommed the 3rd Mullah or Priest. Our losses in slain were three captains and thirty odd soldiers and troopers, and seventy odd men wounded—out ofa force, all told, of about 900 men—the rest being left to guard points of communication in the rear, whilst the enemy numbered over 10,000'men. After the battle over 200 rebels came over and surrendered themselves and were afterwards sent to Ch'angma for further dis-possi, Atthis time, Lia Sze-fu, the Head Chief of the rebels in the hills, tried treachery by sending a force of rebels to pretend to surrender and to report that he (Liu Sze-fu) also wanted to surrender. But General Niv, knowing the treacherous character of Liu Sze-fu, while pretending to believe in the story ofthe latter's wish to surrender, kept on his guard all the while, He was not deceived. On the night (11 o'clock) preceding the day of the supposed surrender, several thousand rebels made a rush at the entrenched camp of our troops, expecting to take us by surprise. But being on his guard General Niu was ready to receive the enemy's onslaught. The rebels were repulsed with much slaughter; but they came on, again and again, to the attack, losing heavily bythe move. When day dawned our troops took the offensive. The enemy's loss was by this time some 800 men, and getting disheartened and seeing our troops march out against them the former fle', being pursued to a distance of some five mile, The rebels then separated in the hills and our troops marching in to search for the enemy killed another 300 odd of them. Liu Sze-fu then with a strong body of horsemen fled in a westerly direction. (Note: into Kokonor, Mongolia, where he defeated and slew a Mongol Prince. Vide former Gazet/e. Translator.) Here the remainder consisting of orer5,000 men, women, and children surrendered to General Niu, thereby leaving the approaches into Chinese Turkestan completely free of rebels. Had the rebels succeeded at the outset in taking" Ch'angma with its well-stocked granaries, they would would have had a strong base and with the eclat of success there is no knowing to. what an extent the rebellion in Chinese 'Turkestan would have spread. Fortunately the bravery and good generalship of General Niu with his small force saved memorialists' province from the horrors of
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