Chihli.
The people in Peking are sceptical of Prince Su's proclamation announcing the settlement of the troubles in the southwest of the province. They say that Yuan Shih-W'ai's troops have killed and looted a great' many people, but very few of them were rebels. The real rebels are still at large, clearing off as soon as Yuan's troops put in an appearance, and turning up in some other unexpected quarter something after the manner of the Boers, They have set fire to a temporary bridge on the railway, to the south of Chéngtingfu, and scared the railway employees there.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.