Dispatches received from Hsian report that owing to an order fr-m the Throne manding the disbandment of some 30,000 troops in Kansu province, consisting, for the most part, of men raised by Tung Fuchsiang, when he held the Command-in-chief "of that province, and commanded and officered entirely Tung's proteges, the regiments concerned, upon receipt of the rumour of disband: ment, without waiting for confirmation, immediately became—mutinows—and threatened to march off in a body to Chinchip'u, the headquarters of Tung Fwhsiang.' The present Commander-in-chief of Kansu, General Teng Tseng. a Cantonese by birth—who is nominally in command of the mutinous troops, finding the regiments faithful to him in the minority at the time, had to resort to strategy temporising with the mutineers and denying the truth of the disbandment Imperial decree. In the meantime the mutinous partisans of 'Tung Fu-hsiang hold the province, and the slightest contretemps will pub Kansu ablaze. In the meanwhile, on the one side ex-Prince 'Tuan and' ex-Duke Lan are urging the Gisatiected troops to join them, and on the other side the Kasi Mahomedans are on the alert to rebel and slay all who are of the Buddhist faith, What will be the Empress Dowager''s Reply?
It is reported from Paoting that number of gentry and' literati of that city have drawn up a petition to the Grand Council to memorialise on their behalf to the Throne asking for permission to build a memorial temple in acting in honour of Ting Yung, late Provincial Treasurer of Chihli, who was executed by the Ties in Paotiny in the autumn of 19 0. It would be remembered that that Manchu Woxer was made to expiate by his life for encouring the Boxers to massacre Christians that year, "but that does not make "riy difference," say the petitioners, " Ting Yung wasa patriot for all that 21st March.
The Commercial Treaty Negotiations.
Ibis reported that Sir J. Mackay has sted th+ opening of the two Hunan cities of Ch'angsha and Ch'angté as Treaty ports with certain areas of ground as Cosmopolitan settlements similar t+ the regulations obtaining in the treaty port of Yochou in the same province. It ix furth stited that Siéng Kung-pao is willing to consent to Sir J. Mackay's suggestion on condition that the Chinese authorities have control over the settlements as well as over the police organisations in them.
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