General Ma' Vu-k'an's Troops to go to Mi Province. 21st October.
'As already stated in ti Notes" some months ago' H.E. ig Keng, Tartar General-designate of, Ili province, or North-west Chinese Turkestan, op being" appointed to the post asked the Empress-Dowager to allow General Me Yi-kun, Command chief of the territorial Army of Chihli province, and the troops under him to accompany him to Chinese Turk 'This request' was made owing: tothe unrest amonget the Mahomedan subjects of the. Throne in Tarkestan and the utter uselessness of the Chinese territorial troops garrisoning that province, who are not only very.in number,. but,, old,.and decrepit; and what is worse, armed only wit Bess.", pattern, troops number some!25,0 soldiers,, armed with. mod of 3 the..majority. of. th saw,.service. in the, Boxer, war. of, 1900 under the command, of un's Brigade near Paoting. This General was then appointed to, succeed General Nich as Commander-in-chief Chibli province, and,.we, now understand that the wish expressed by Tartar General accompany: Kim to: Ili has been strongly backed by Viceroy Yuan Shih-kai, who has'lately informed Their Majesties that the north-western frontiers of the Empire are just as important as the north-eastern (the Manchurian pro.. vinces) and require to be garrisoned and for Chinese Turkestan, long, weary march of at least four months' duration, BBFM October.
Mahomedans are Restless. According to a, Peking. dispatch, news has been received from the Viceroy,, of the. Shen-kan, (Shensi-Kansu), provinces to the effect that there is considerable restlessness among the Chinese Mus-sultans in these two provinces as well as in Chinese' Turkestan to the West. It is believed that the Mullahs of, these
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