CHINA DAILY NeWS.")
The Ministers of the Board of War report that a man named Hu Yung-yi, giving himself out as an expectant Major-General with Commander-in-Chief) ted himself the brevet button of a Titu (Provincial was no one on the lists of expectant Major Generals bearing the name of Hu Yung-yi, which showed that the man was an impostor.
warrant was accordingly issued for the said Hu Yung-vis arrest, but he, learning that the suspicions of the Board had been aroused, at once made himself scarce. We hereby command the Commandant of the Peking Gendarmerie, the Governor of The "Sinwénpao" reports that on the th inst. as " body of over one hundred Cossacks was escorting a number of carts and waggons loaded with ammunition from Niuchiatun to the entrance of the Liao river, the column was attacked midway en route by a band of about five hundred Hunghutse Bandits who were all fully armed with modern weapons. After a sharp fight of over half an hour the Russians finding themselves outnumbered abandoned the carts and carrying off their wounded fled from the battlefield. The Hunghutse bandits lost two killed and nine wounded in the affair.
Russians at Liaoyang, according to the same paper, have lately made eight openings in the walls of that city, that is to say, two on the north, two on the south, two on the east and two on the western side of the city-walls, for the sake of the easy ingress and egress of their troops.
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