The Archive · 1900

EXIT TUNG FU-TSIANG

We hear that H. E. Sheng, Director-General of Telegraphs, ete., has received telegram from Hsian to the effect that General Tung Fu-hsiang, who was cashiered by Imperial decree on the 3rd instant and ordered to take his personal troops to garrison Kansu province, has left Heian for that province. We hear it also stated that although 5,500 men were disbanded recently, the few battalions of personal troops" mentioned in the deere still amount to over 10,000 men.

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