A Chinese military officer at present in Shanghsi, received a letter lately from a brother officer in Hsiinchou, Viceroy Tsen Civun-hsiien's headquarters in Kuangsi province, to the effect that on the 18th of August a brigade of modern-armed troops, numbering 9,500 men of all arms, under the command of General Cheng, one of the Viceroy's most trusted officers, attacked' a strong force of rebels in a fortified township some thirty-five miles from Hsiinchou, which resulted in the} complete wiping out of the whole brigade. That is to say, it is stated that the Government troops lost. over a thousand in killed and wounded while the remainder threw down their arms and went over the rebel side. It is further stated th General Cheng and all his principal officers were killed, which was the reason of the survivors surrendering instead of fighting until reinforcements, which were nese scholar and with a decided pen- oj his nominees to the Presidency and ut for abstruse works and ancient Vjcc-Presidency of that Department of ise _philosoph; Shanghai Taotai-His Honour Yuan Shu-hsun, who as already stated in these "Notes" last week had gone to Nanking to consult ey Wei Kuang-t'ao, is expected to retry Shanghai this morning September.
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