[according to a telegram received by the local mandarins on Saturday, are in a most perturbed state owing to the cerions news simultaneously received lately from {Canton and Kueilin, the capitals of the Two Kuang provinces. The high authorities ut the two provinces report that the disbanded soldiers of General Ting tsai, mostly descendants of old Tongki Black, Yellow, and Red-flagman, number joined the in-has rendered situation in the South very precarious and the arsis a dangerous one. These fendants of he old Black flags, Yellow and Red fixgs, hitherto veenpying tracts of lands and forests in "tong King ant the borderlands of Kuangsi, immigrated into the Two Kuang frontiers and the highlands of Kuangsi and would ps remained there peaceably Put in 1900, in pursuance of ntiforeign policy of the Empress Dowager, her Princes—-Tuan, Chusn her principal Advisers, Yi, Li Pig-hong, Yi Ko, hav Shu-chiao, ete., ete., the Southern Generals and Governo 5 were ordered 10 raise an! arm as speedily as possible as Jarge armies of men as they could gather and send them up the Yangtze and central provinces to fight foreign In Kuangsi prov nee the task was given to General or Marshal Feng fzo-tsai, and to Marshal 1 in Koangtung province, The former thereupon called to his standard the desfendants of his and Lin Yung-fu's old fy lowers, furnishing them wi best of modern arms and anu which the Southern Governors enthusias tically and recklessly sent, 80 eager were they to please the Empress Dowager and her advisers. Then came the collapse of the movement by the eapiure of Pel and the flight of Court to Hsian, thrown upon the of the Southern authorities " formidble and warlike force of some 40,000 "ble-Qodied men; and what was worse, a thoroughly well-armed and furnished army. A'tempts were made to compel these troops to up their arms and wamuniton previous to their receiving their pay and bounties promised them on their joining the army which was to sweep the soldiers of the We-tera nations into the sea. Naturally this the troops refused to do, and so disgusted was Marshal Feng Tve-te'ai at the scurvy treatment his men had received that he resigned and refused to help the authorities. The latter then turned over the command of the Kuangsi levies to Marshal Ssu. The latter, therefore, taking a large force of his own men with him, tried not Jong ago to take over the command of his new troops. To his chagrin, the Kuanysi men flouted his authority and threatened to annihilate their new Commander-in-chick and his men if they tried to enter the camps. Indeed, in some camps when Marshal Su's Colonels, whom he hal appointed to take command in price of the Kuangsi troops' own Colonels, attempted to enter them, the occupants greeted the newcomers with volleys of stones first and with bullets afterwards, when the latter tried 10 force their way in, headed by Marshal Su's great Banner. Finally, when Marshal Ssu brought up many thousands of his men to coerce his unruly new forces, the latter simply blew the rally and call to arms and marched off in an orderly manner to the hill country to join the insurgents, curving everything with them. The insurgents number now some 60,00) men, and when enough supplies in food have been gathered in by them, we may expect to hear some serious news about them.
Panic Amongst Chinese in Port Arthur, 'A large number of Chinese merchants doing business in Port Arthur have lately returned South with their families, owing, as they say, to having heard in that port that the Russians are preparing for war against Japan. The warlike activity also seen in Port Arthur by the merchants has not lessened their panic, and the news brought to Shanghai by them seems to show that they are convinced of the truth of it. Goods ordered from Shanghai for Port Arthur have even been counter manded by several Chinese hongs.
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