According to Tientsin as well as Peking vernacular papers there have lately been numerous cipher telegrams exchanged between the Chinese and Russian Governments anent the eva tion of Russian troops from Manchuria, and that Chinese statesmen are getting greatly alarmed at the attitude of the Russians who have recently manifested a decide! reluctance to leave their present comfortable quarters in the "Three Eastern Provinces," ie. Fengtien, Kirin and Heilungchiang (Lower, Central and Northern Manchuria). In certain instances it is reported that the Russians have refused point blank to evacuate, Purchasing Ponies in Mongolia.
A Taiyuan, capital of Shansi, dispatch to hand reports that several military officers who have resolved their training in Japan, have been order' by Governor Tsen of that province to proceed to the Mongolian horse marts of Tolunor and Lamamiao t" purchase about nine hundred ponies for the foreign-molalled Corps recently raised by Governor Ts'én to_ form the nucleus of the future disciplined Territorial Army of Shansi province. The present Corps is to have a couple of batteries of field artillery and four or five squadrons of cavalry, all of which have to be provided with the necessary mounts. The infantry will probably consist of some eight or ten battalions.
Yung Lu as Peace-maker, The Tientsin " Chihpro" states that the Grand Secretary Yung Lu, during a recent audience with the Empress Dowager, brought up the subject of the ex-Imperial Tutor and Grand Secretary Wong Tung-ho, who it may perhaps be recalled was cashiered by the Empress Dowager, and thin an ace of losing his life in' 1898, for having counselled his Imperial pupil, the Emperor Kuang Hsii, to put the Empress Dowager in some place where she could be securely prevented from ing with his sty's reform Most sensitive to public opinion the Empress Dowager never dared death Wong Tung-ho, who is considered by to ive her open approval to bulting to the masses a martyr and a patriot, and who after his loss of office was ordered to return to his native city of Ch'angshu, new Soochow, and remain there under the strict surveillance of the local authori-tics of Ch'angshu. Hence arises the fact that the ex-Imperial 'Tutor is still in the land of the living. 'The Grand Secretary Yung Lu, it is stated, spoke so eloquently on behalf of Wong' thit the Empress Dowager seemed to be quite "moved", so that sanguine people are in hopes that the Empress Dowager—who is known by those immediately around her to be a woman who never forgives uor forgets an opponent—may soften so far as to restore Wong Tuog-ho to his nominal rank and, perhaps, re-employ him in Peking,
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