received here yesterday state that General Tung Fu-hsiang and his Kansu savages left Peking twenty-four hours before the Aight of the Empress Dowager, his corps being ordered to act as her advanced guard to Shensi. This appears to have been due to an apprehension that the Nortl western Mahommelans may be tempted to attack the Empress Dowaxer and Cout en route, and make away with the Tsing or Manchu dynasty for good and fo: all.—Another report states that upon the capture of Peking by the allies the members of all the legations all removed into the Palaces inside the "'Forbidden-City " for greater safety.—Chao Shu-chiao, President of the Board of Punishments, Grand Councillor, etc., is now at Paotingfu, and Ge eral Sung and his forees have retreated to Changhsintien, on the Peking-Faotinefu It is stated that the allies have placarded Peking with—proclamations that they had come to the Capital to suppress the Boxers, to slay the authors of the present, trouble and to relieve the Legations, All law-abiding people would not be touched nor troubled.
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