As will be remembered by readers of these " Notes," by the capture the other city of Yungfu, a day's march in, the provincial capital of Kuangsi, the last-named city is placed in imminent peril of capture by the insurgents andrevolted regiments, especi ally as there are, practically, no tree Kueilin to defend it from a general assault. One can imagine the scare of Governor Ko Feng-shih and his colleagues, the Provincial Treasurer and the Provincial Judge, when faced with such a peril, and so there need be no surprise to learn that the throe high provincial officials noted sent an urgent telegram to Peking on the 26th inst., soon after the fall of Yungfu, stating that " the insurgents and revolted regiments have now become so dangerous and audacious that Kueilin is in deadly peril, and the memorialists, therefore, pray their Imporisl Majesties the Empress Dowager and Emperor toconjointly ud their commands to Viceroy Teta Ch'un-hsien to come to the speedy rescue of Kueilin with all the forces under him." To the outsider this telegram seems but natural, until he learns that the Viceroy of the Two Kuang provinces and the Governor of Kuangsi are stated to be deadly enemies, and so the latter has sought to place pressure from above upon the former in order to quicken his movements, which may otherwise be too slow for the Governor's comfort, not knowing apparently that the patriotic Viceroy had already started to the rescue of Kueilin as soon as he had heard of the mutiny at Liuchou.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.