The Governor Yuan Shih-kai, from his post at the provincial capital, keeps informing us by wire of the doings in Peking which we are all anxious to believe as far as we possibly can. Still the Legations are strictly confined to Lo: and all that comes out is strictly limited to communications announcing comparative safety. The advance for relief goes on at what appears to the rank outsider as a desperately slow pace. Will the beleaguered foreigners in Peking be able to hold out til they arrive? This is the question which none dare cheerfully answer in the affirmative.
From the interior of this province we have better news.
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