Dispatches received ty the veal Axrins from the North report that some 15,009 troops in sll have entered the Chihli borders from the surrounding provinees since the last week of M-y, and that these forces have all been placed under a favourite General of Li Hung-ching, named Lu P&u-yuan. The latter has not however, been very successful in suppress sing Boxer outbreaks since his entrance into Chibli province, and it is credibly reported that General Lit Pén-vasu has been twice severely defeated by the Boxers wow over-running the region southwest of Paoting an the country belonging to the prefecture of Tientsin and Hochien, General Lu has appealed for more troops.
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