For some weeks past rumours of disturbances in the south of Chibli have been current in the tea shops in Peking. It was reported that Yuan Shih-kai had' received no less than six official dispatches, from as many Hsien officials in the prefecture of to three 3 OS Boxers had crossed the Shintehfu (If (ff), stating that from two borders from Shantung eT guleed the Hsien city of Kuangts'ung, (J8%34). seized the officials, attacked and defeated a band of Yuan's new recruits on the way to Paoting-fa to join the army, and killed a Roman Catholic priest whom they met on the road, and were carrying his head, exposed on a pole, round the country side. They implored the Viceroy to send troops at once,
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