Oticinls at Lanchou, the provincial capital of Kansu, have' received further vows of the movements of Prince Tuan and his Mongol army in_the grass country just outside or north of the Great Wall, stretching from east t" west, on the northern Doundaties of Shensi amd Slansi provinces. The news that Prince Tuan is shaping his course eastwards toward Yulin, an opening of the Great Wall on the Shansi frontier, has been comtirmed, his evidently to penetrates Shansi by this route. Tt ts further stated that Tang Fuchsiang is sending his adherents in separate bodies, all well-mounted, in a northeasterly direction, apparently ep in touch with Prince Lwan's fore t he himself is othe 4 round 49,000 well armed and seasoned ers, his camp be the hills east "fF Kuyuan, neat the Shensi borders, the iomedans of Shensi- and Karst provinees have made no move nor niven any signs of unrest, evidently awed by the numerous forces of Tang Fu-hsiang who are daily joining his banner; but there is searcely "any doubt that the Maho= iuedens, who Hittedy hate Tung, will n reasmable d nisveries of the Turkish Mission of lately notified the Maha:
si and Kansu of the objects fit that they are awaiting st before cluing Confirmatory news les ale been received stating that it was one of th numerous bands of Tung Fa-hsiang mounted adherents ent route to juin Prince Pawn that murdered the Bely i The (1891, 4) since the spun the war with of Formosa Shanghai ever of 1894, just previous to died of consumption Torn n the 2rd inst., at the age of about 46, at his late residence on the Bubbling Well Road, behind the Chinese Tureau of Foreign Affairs, H. E, who was an enlightened hiiicial, abuse the average, would have mounted much high on the olfeial lidder had his health permitted: but the illness which he contracted in Formosa made hint constant invalid, so that he conkd show his desire for reform by subscribing freely to educational movements, and adding. his wame to papers on reform presented to the Thron" by Reformers in 1898 and afcerwards, The deceased was x native of Shaoshing, Chdkiay province, was Chiijén or M.A. in' literary rank, and Teaves.av only son to succeed to his large estates, not a small portion of which is in
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