Tt is reported from Peking that Prince Tsai Chen. Chinese Commissioner to the Osaka Exhibition, returned to Peking from Japan on the 2nd inst., and Tung, Assistant Commissioner, on the day after.—The Manchu Grand Seeretarv Kiun Kang is reported to be seriously ill and there are fears that he will not live through this month.—An_ epidemic of dysentery has attacked the brigade of foreign-modelled troops belonging to Viceroy Yuan Shih-k'ai's army, commanded by General Chane Hsin. while stationed at. the Summer Palace at Wanshoushan acting as a guard to the, Em: press Dowager. This is the body of troops which the Empress Dowager took a great liking to on her return from Hsian and which she honoured by making her own special bodyguard. It is reported that the epidemic is so severe that the men hare been fatally attacked at the rate of six ar seven a day. It is also stated that those treens got the epidemic while stationed in Peking, in which city the disease is raging severely.
Sheng Kung: arrived here on Tuesday morning from Tientsin, in the steamer Hsinyii, as we stated he would on Monday in these "Notes."
AScrious Report.
We translate the following from the "Tung Wa for the sake of civilisation and the future of China we sincerely hope is unt:—"Tt will be remembered that a number of Chines students studying in Tokio patriotically formed themselves lately into a battalion with the intention of volunteering for the front to oppose the Russian conquest of Manchuria. In this connection two of the students, Messrs. Niu Ti-song, and T'ang,
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