A telegraphic dispatch from Tsiaug-Kiang, on the Grand Canal, reports that H. E. Viceroy Chou Fu, of the Liangkiang provinces, left that city for Nanking on Sunday, travelling by stoamlaunch as far as South Tungehou, where 'a cruiser is waiting.
The Tartar General-designate of Mukden.
Chao Erh-sen, late President of the Board of Revenue in Peking, was received in special audience by their Imperial Majesties the Emperor and Empress Dowager on the 8th instant. The new Tartar General had asked for the audience for the purpose of thanking their Majesties for his new appointment, and was commanded to start for Mukden without delay. His Excellency therefore handed over the Board of Revenue to his successor, H. E. Chang Pei-hsi, on Saturday, the 13th, and is ted to leave for Mukden on the 18th instant, travelling by rail as far as Heinmintun, which is about three stages distant to the southwest of Mukden. It is reported that H. E. Tstog Eh', the predecessor of Chao Erh-sen, has been recently impeached by a number of censors on the charge of cowardice and truckling to the Russians, it being strongly felt that had an abler and more determined person been Tartar General at. Mukden in 1900 and the following years, the Russians would never hay able to have obtained such a strong foothold in Manchuria, thereby bringing on the present war.
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