One of the Generals in command of cavalry in this district is an old friend who protected the writer and his colleagues for aix months before the Boxer rising took place, and part of his troops escorted them to Chinanfu in June 1900. That was in Shantung, and not only the foreigners, but the native Christians in that district have cause to bless the name of our friend, who was then but a Major, but is now, most worthily, a Major-General. This man, like all the men who have served under Yuan Shih-kai, has an unbounded admiration for his chief. 'No man is a hero to his valet," but your correspondent has rarely met' anywhere such passionate devotion to a leader as is found among the troops of the Viceroy of Chibli.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.