The Archive · 1912

Despatch of an Expedition

REBELLIOUS MONGOLS — From Our Own Correspondent

Peking, Aug. 28

An expedition is _procesding against the rebellious Mongols in cluding two batteries of artillery, one regiment of cavalry and the commissariat, altogether totalling about has 4,000 troops.

The expedition has its base at Hsinmintung, from which it moved on Friday in a northerly direction. The Mongolians are expected to disperse before this force and fighting is not anticipated.

Ying is a division of " battalion the word is frequently used with regard to a camp, being indefinite in number.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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