As an ontonme of the request from the Viceroy of the Yun-Kuei provinces to be permitted to requisition arms and ammunition from the Hupeh Viceroyalty to equip the new Army Corps mich is being organized in Yunnan province, after the Peiyang model, the Ministry of War has reported to the Throne that the various Army Corps in Hupeh need all the arms and ammunition that are now in that province. The Ministry of War, however, suggests that the som of Tis, 600,000 be given to the Yunnan authorities to purchase the necessary arms, ete. themselves.
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