Better news has been received from Chengtu and Chungking to the effect that Borerism is being now gradually stamped out by the energy of Viceroy Tsen and his officers, but that robbery is still rife throughout the province, the perpetrators being not Boxers, but regular banditti whose lairs are in the hills and have been occupied by them for years.
The Chinese Gold Mines in the which were hitherto managed by officials sent by the Peiyeng Administration, but abandoned in 1900 owing to the suicidal war against Russia made by the Manchu military officer Ching Ch'ang, are, accord-worked by orders of Viceroy Yuan Shibing to a Tientsin dispatch, to be kai, As the Russians have already been profitably working the mines in question for the past two years it is doubtful when ther Viceroy Yuan will be able to obtain hie wish unless at a great sacrifice of compensation" to the Muscorites on the It is reported from Peking that the Grand Council has sent a telegram to Ch'ang Shun, Tartar General of Kirin (Central Manchuria), instructing him to make a report on the present Governments of Northen and Lower Manchuria (Fengtien and Heilungchiang), and show how much of the actual government of thos provinces remains in the hands of the Russians and what he would recommend to be dono in the matter. ith February.
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