Dispatches received by the local nian-darins from Peking state that Viceroy Li Hung-chang has lately received several dispatches from General Chiang-Kuei-ti reporting victories in south-west Chihli_ over the Boxers and banditti who defeated General Lu Pen-yuan's Anhui troops the other day. The former General, it will be remembered, was ordered. by Viceroy Li Hung-chany'to go to the Intter General's re cue when it was found that even with a superior force in numbers he could make no headway against the enemy.
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