'A telegram received from Canton, yesterday, by a high Chinese Mandarin in Shanghai, reports the capture by the Kuangsi rebels, assisted by the revolted troops, on Friday, the 22nd instant, of the city of Yungfu, only one day's march, or twenty-two miles from Kueilin, the provincial capital of Kuangsi, in which city are the Governor, (Ko Feng-shih) and the Provincial Treasurer and Judge, who have among them only 600 men indifferently armed. It is stated that leaving these 600 men aside, there is not a single soldier in Kueilin, owing to the action of the Gove nor in putting all the troops, inten ed for the protection of the provincial capital at Liuchou, hence Kueilin is absolutely defenceless. As was their custom, in the taking, Liuchou, the revolted troops, who are said to number 11,000 men, massacred all the officials of the city of Yungfu. Greatanxicty is felt at Canton for the fate of Kueilin as the Hukuang and Liangkiang reinforcements will take at least three weeks to get to Kuangsi.
26th July.
Preparing for Emergencies, Knowing the propensity of the Russians to sot fire to towns which the exigencies of war compel them to abandon to a victorious enemy (vide Antung and other towns), the Tartar General of Mukden, in' conjunction with what has been left so far of the gentry of that city, has been lately actively Preparing for service a large number of fire-engines manipulated by hand in case the Russians start a conflagration in Mukden when they retreat Harbinward.
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