'A Canton dispatch states that a brigade of government troops which went to recapture the city of Hoch'ihchou, near Liuchou, taken three weeks ago by the insurgents, after three days' incessant fighting, finally succeeded on the 28th ultimo in detesting the insurgents and retaking the city of Hoch'ihchou. Both sides suffered largely in casualties, The surgents are reported to have been scattered and the majority have fled into the hills.
An Anti-progressly - Viceroy.
'A Peking letter reports that {Viceroy Chang Chih-tung not content with making hostile criticisms aguinst the recommendations of Sir Robert Hart, already noted in these columns, has also presented a strong memorial to the Throne against Professor Jenks' financial recommendations for gold standard for China, declaring that such S.atep would on the contrary cause finanial disaster to the country.
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