Peking, January 3.
An Italian railway engineer, who was engaged by the Viceroy of Yun-Kuei to survey the line from Ydnnanfu to Kueiyangfu, has been attacked on the way to Yunnan-fa near that city by robbers and been killed.
The revolutionists in the Province of Kuangsi are making progress. The movement is extending especially in the direction of Yunnan. Viceroy Hsi Liang has been ordered to resist their advance with all power as soon as they cross the frontier of his provinces. cated to the Waiwapu, that Indo-' Chinese troops have captored s party of revolutionists, who had passed the frontier of Tongking, have disarmed them and brought them to Hanoi, where they fare now kept in prison. The Governor-General of Indo-China demands that all costs in connexion with these operations must be paid by China.
January 6.
Yo Shi-mei, the special Commissioner of the Chinese Government, who is to study the administration of Germany, will leave for Berlin tomorrow by train vid Siberia, Viceroy Hsi Liang of Yanknei reports that the work on the railway from Lankai to Mengtze is progressing in such a way that the first trains from Hanoi to Mengtzo will probably run by the end of this year. With regard to this progress the gentry of Yiionan has formed a railway company, which intends to build all oth railways in the Province of Yiinoan and expecially desires to redeem from the French the concession granted to them for the railway from Mengtze to Yiinnanfo, and Ister on from there to the Yangtze.
January 7.
Chang Ming-chi, the Governor of Kousngsi, has reported that Dr. Sun Yat-sen, the old leater of the revolationists, who has lived for some years in Singapore, has arrival in Hanoi, from which point he is said to direct the movements of the revelationists in South China. The Waiwapa has requested the Governor-General of Indo-Chins to expel Dr. San Yst-sen, in case the report of Chang Ming-chi is joorrect.
Viceroy Hsi Shih-chang, of Man-chuns, has memorialized the Waiwopa about the Chientso affair, pointing out the necessity of settling it at once, He Prof that the matter be laid before the Hague Tribunal for arbitration.
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