The Archive · 1901

PRINCE TUAN AND TUNG FU-ISIAN

A Lanchou, capital of Kansu, dispatch, ated three weeks ago, states' that the followers of lung Fu-hsiang and Prince Toan were reported to. be hovering in the vicinity of the Shansi horders but had not yet entered the territories of that province. The followers of Prince Tuan on the northern borders are reported to he diseonten*ed, about a fourth having and fied back to their tribal rosery; tion north-west +f Ninghsia, outside the Great Wall. Amongst. the' followers Tung Fu-hsiang are stated to he nearly,000 Mahomedan horsemen, which would seem to show that. Tang is not so bitterly hate? by the Kansu Mussulmans as tumour gives it. The above news comes from a reliable source and there is no reason to doubt its accuracy.

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