Since writing last we have had the better news from the North that General Tung Fu-hsiang is going to his home for good. His home is ata place called Kingki-0 over 100 miles north of Kuiien. The eneral is making preparations to build barracks there. At present his forces consist of 2,500 soldiers, most of them with stores and ammunition but little money. Their pay is over due.
Awire and its meaning.
T heard the other that a new line of telegraph is being built from Lanchow to Ningshia and then to Chungking chuan. But why build to Nin: Prince Tuan and General Tung Fu-hsiang had not been in the neighbourhood no telegraph would have been connected there.
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