Lieutenants Kirsten, des Arts and von Hummer undertook a reconnoitring expedition from Kalyan into the province of Shansi, with a detachment of German cavalry, going about 60 miles beyond the border of Chibli, They returned by the way of Tatungfu and Kuangchang to the Province of Chibli. Whatever parts of Shansi they crossed they found quiet, with no trace of Chinese troops, either Imperial or General Tung Fu-hsiang's.
The cases with Chinese antiquities and relics which General Frey sent some months ago as loot to the museums in France, but which were given back by the French Government, arrived here and have been delivered to the Imperial Palace.
Count Waldersee returned to-day to Peking after having inspected the German arrisons at Ch'angping and Chatao, and aving paid a visit to the Ming Tombs.
The German Brigade under Major-General von Kettler, which fought the other day at the Great Wall with the troops of General Liu Kuan-tsai, arrived to-day by railway at Paotingfu, The troops suffered a great deal from the intense heat while marching from the border of Shansi to the railway; they lost one man by sunstroke and hada number dangerously ill from the same cause, but their wounded mon arrived in good condition,
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