Amid these festivities and rejoicings comes the intelligence that a rebellion has actually begun in Kansu and Mongolia, directed by Tung Fu-hsiang, the ex-Prince Tuan, and seme of the Mongol Princes. There is nothing to fear from them here, as they are poorly armed; but we pity the missionaries and native converts in that north-western mn. The General designated for the Kansu province is Chiang Kuei-ti, who is in charge of Yuan Shih-kai's troops inside Peking.
The Passing Show, There is abundant talk of change, bnt none of honesty. The reforms have the character of superficiality and fickleness, which must be taken as chief characteristics of the Empress Dowager, if her complicity in the wars of 1900 is to be rejected from the records of history.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.