The following private letter, dated Wei-the 26th of March, has been kindly our disposal a very tuny show hen 2 i day, which I would not have missed for a lot.' Tt seems that the country round here is rather unsettled and the Chinese don't care to pay our taxes and s They ave said to be steadily arming to resist our people and, even Boers, to drive us into the sei Well, came that there was big of malcontents at a village 8 miles from her utmost preserved as to our plans and the usual time we fell in, sot ball ammuni and tried to hoist M bur the Sutherland slipped While we were t bolted. We and the then psussed obit of had di hed to about not t of as may cross-how 10, was wounded in sev Satherlad received a he the sibs, which completely dis proof of is now deep in the secret Empress Dowager and her chief adviser, Prince Ching, in whose company Wang has been known to have visited the Russian Legation ath times during the past' month, one being made as late as 10 o'clock one night, These visits, it has leaked out from the Palace, emanated from the anxiety of the Empress Dowager and her advisers to know how far Russia will be prepared to back them e{up in the event of the present Chinese Government deciding to take the risk of a rebellion in the Empire and defying British and Japanese interference, for the sake of we went ived at the p in time and yund from GOO te 700 of all sorts there. They took but little interest in our arrival as we could see, and unde no attempt either to bolt or to r but just stued and looked on while w marched through them and quietly, drew up ina cordon all round them. We had beand that they had a considerable number of firearms among them, ssu thab as we approached we did not know when they ight open fire. As soon as our 420 had surrounded their 700 or_so, the talkeetalked started up. One of the leaders told
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