'A dispatch from Taiyuan, capital of nsi, states that as Taiyuan was one of tin 1900, that ate and 3 for the years. ative has, fou the authorities to ad the prohibition in the selection district city of Haikou, some twenty-five mives from T to hold ati us, Uns making the prohibitory clause The New Provincial Judge of Kiangsu.
Hsiao Tsens (M arrive to-day his seals has on the Lith inst. lancha) who is expected at So chow to take ever wed that he will 10th March.
Viceroy ¥ Disciplined Forces, partly raised in 1897 and 1893 in Chihli j while the well-known en-nebed cantonments at Hsiaochan, some miles west of Tivutsin, partly ra 1 1900 in [while he was Governor of that province, and amounting to over 25,000 men of all now with the excep!
Chibli, mostly enact ped in Paotiny, in Pe-Kingand in the vicinity of the region centrally situated between Paoting, Peking and The force above-noted of 3,500 4, divided as follows:
infantry and a field battery at Wei-Hisien cinity 1,000 cavalry and a field battery in Ichoufu prefecture; 500 in-[fantry at Ch'ingchou, and 500 cavalry at Chinan, the provincial capital. The present Governor of Shantung is to raise a force of 20,000 men, organised and armed after Yuan's army—so it is ordered on paper—and when the new foreign-modelled Anny of Shantung is well on its way to completion the brigade left behind by Viceroy Yuas is to be transferred to Chihli to join their Commander-in-Chief. In the meanwhile Viceroy Yuan is determined to have a disciplined ani modern-armed army of 100,000 men in Chili by the spring of 1903.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.