The Marshal and his countrymen returned the compliment and_ the company then split up for a hatfhour of general conversation. It was particularly interesting to tak, with some of the higher military! officers, many of them men with a good foreign education, who could feonverse in very precise Englis One would not have been very surprised to find them in a boastful mood, for, only the day before, a mont ths campaigning without single reverse of any consequence' had been capped by the reduction of the last serious obstacle on the road to Jehol, which is. regarded here as the key to Peking. the reverse, howeve At no time since [have been up here have T found Mukden people, either foreign
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