Tue strict censorship to which Press messages are now, it would seem, being subjected by the Milinu) Authorities in Chihli is no doubt perfectly correct. It has at all events one advantage: as we are entirely without knowledge of the actual plans jof the Allied commanders there is no indiscretion in venturing to compare the advantages and disadvantages of the several routes by which they may, or might, proceed to attack Peking.
Those routes divide themselves into two _groups—the South-eastern and the Eastern. The former includes the ordinary approach to Peking, along the line of the Peiho (80 to 90 miles), as well as that which starting from the coast at Pehtang passes through Lutai and Hsinan and joins the other at Matou (120 to 130 miles). The Eastern group comprises all
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