A Poking telegram to hand states that the Viceroys and Governors of the following provinces have 60 far offered to send troops to the North should it be decided to fight Russia for the of Manchuria:—Hunan, Hupeh, Ki ssu, Kiangsi, Anhui, Szechuan, Fukien, Chekiang, Kuangtung, Shantung, Shansi, Shonsi_and "Honan. The aggregate number of troops promised from, these thirteen provinces amount to 90,000 men all armed with modern rifles. There
sight quick-firing guns to accompany the a to be also, it is announced, forty Hukuang and Liangkiang troops.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.