A North Chinchou dispatch states that a Chinese military officer who had been recently sent by the district magistrate of Haichéng, Fengtien province (Lower Manchuria), to suppress a band of brigands in the vicinity of that city, was ambushed by the bandits and during the fighting which ensued captured by the latter. The captured officer who seemed to have been especially obnoxious to the bandits for some reason or other was literally sliced to pieces by them before having his head chopped off. Three soldiers also lost their lives and half a dozen were wounded Russian Attempted Obstruction.
A Peking letter reports that as soon as 'M. Lessar, the Russian Minister at Peking, heard that orders had been issued to General Ma Vu-kun to occupy Shanhaikuan and the region north of it, on the west of the Liao River, the former immediately called atthe Waiwupu to protest st this movement of Chinese troops. One of the excuses sot forth by the Russian Minister was that the Chinese troops were so undisciplined that there would certainly arise trouble between them and Rus troops along the Liao river. Needless to say M. Lessar's objections were unheeded by the Chinese Government.
Chinese Troops Restless on the Liao River.
As the above wore being written a telegraphic dispatch from the North states that General Ma Yii-k'un's troops which are encamped on the western banks of the Liao river are getting restless and out-of-hand. The troops are said to be most eager to attack the Russian troops on the eastern banks of the river and that already small parties of his men, evading their superior officers, have crossed over to the Russian side and come to blows with the Muscovite patrols.
Chinese Troops at Kalgan.
"Owing to the receipt of news of bodies of Russian troops being seen in the vicin nity of Kalgan (Changehiakou), the Peking government has sent a brigade (3,500 men) of foreign-modelled troops to repel by force of arms any attempted entrance of Russian troops.
22nd February. The Chinese Commission to St.
Louis.
'The China Merchants' steamer Anping has been chartered by the Chinese Government to carry Mr. Wang Kai-kah, Chinese Vice-Commissioner to the St. Louis Exposition, up to Tientsin to meet his colleague Prince Pu Lun, Chies Commissioner to the Exposition, who is expected to leave Poking on the 4th proximo. Mr. Wang Kai-kah leaves Shanghai on the 26th instant and escorts Prince Pu Lun to the United States.
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