It is stated that Viceroy Yuan Shih-Kai has received the following telegram from H.E. P'an Hsiao-ssu, Governor of Chinese Turkestan, or the New Dominion—"Tho Russians are erecting telegraph Yines side by side with our own in this Province, connecting the various cities and towns, and extending their lines, of course, to join with those of Russian Central Asia on the West and Siberia on the North. As Your Excellency (Viceroy Yuan) is now Director-General of Telegraphs this matter urgently concerns you while it also concerns me as Governor of these dominions. I trust therefore that Your Excellency will lose no time in apprising the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Peking and ask it to take immediate steps to obstruct and stop the Russians in this violation of International law and encroachment: on the integrity and indepondence of the Empire.
Apropos of this kind of work of the Russians in Chinese Turkestan it will also be remembered that they have acted in a similar manner in Manchuria and Corea. It seems certain therefore that it is the Purpose of Russia not only to absorb those two countries in the near future but also at the same time Chinese Turkestan, news from which portion of the Chinese Empire dribbles but slowly hither.
Patriotic Chinese Young Ladies.
A Tokio letter to hand reports that simultaneously with the determination expressed by some six or seven hundred young Chinese studying in Japan to form themselves into a volunteer battalion to serve with the Chinese Army sent to eject the Russians from Manchuria, aire noted in these columns last weeks, a ni ber of Chinese young lady students in Tokio have joined the Japanese Red Cross Society with the expressed determination to volunteer as nurses for the front.
Viceroy Chang Chih-tung. according to a Weilnifu, Honan, dis patch, arrived in that city from Hankow en route for Peking, on the afternoon of the 4th inst., remaining there overnight and proceeding North the next morning.
The Empress Dowager's Econowies."
The following comes from the North: "The expenses incurred by Viceroy Yuan Shih-kai for the Empress Dowager's trip to the Western mausolea, Paoting, and Southern Huntin t_month ex-If tacks, this sum Tls. 650,000 (obtained from the Board of Revenue) was expended in constructing the twenty-five miles of temporary railway to the mausolea, and Tls. 2,000,000 (borrowed from a foreign Bank at interest) was used in upholsterine. decorating and furnishing the Imperial railway carriages and constructing, de-cerating, etc., the Imperial Resthouses. The above noted Tls. 2,650,000 being expended before the Court had arrived at Paoting, Viceroy Yuan was compelled to
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