The Canton correspondent of the "*Hongkong Daily Press" say Imperial edicts having been sent to nearly all the Viceroys of the Provinces requiring them to send troops to Peking, the lite Viceroy Tan of Canton recom: mended the Imperial Government to summon the Black Flag Chief, Liu Yung-fa, with his army to the North to suppress the Boxers or perhaps to resist the foreign troops. The Acting Viceroy asked Liu if he would go, and he replied that if the Government want him to go, he will take 10,000 troops with him to the North, but that he will require several hundred thou-sind dollars for expenses, without which he will not go, as he was fooled once in Formosa, at the time of the China-Japanese war, and does not wish for a repetition of this. He was left there without any ammunition or provisions, was almost destitute, and had to run away in the disguise of an old woman. As the Government is unable to supply this money, it has been decided to send up 3,000 troops under a cheaper general overland, with intent to "suppress the Boxers."
15th An.
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