A Chengtu, capital of Szechuan province, letter states that H. E. Viceroy Hei Liang has received " dispatch from General Ma, commanding the punitive expeditions operating against the Tibetans of Batang for the murder of the Imperial Assistant Resident, Feng Chuan, last March, in which the General reports that, having captured the hill fortress of Tashukuan after a sharp fight, his troops advanced upon the town of Chtam (Ch'amu) which is about one hundred li distant from Batang. This one hundred li had, however, to be battled for step by step, and after desperate fighting lasting two whole days and nights, during which the troops were getting nearer and nearer their goal, the Tibetans were so hardly pressed that they determined to' set fire to the Tingling Lama Monastery and massacre all the Chinese families settled in that neighbourhood. The first part of that plan the rebels did, managing to destroy the greater part of the Monastery. While they were preparing to attack the fow Chinese families nent the Monastery the troops, guided by the smoke and the flames of the conflagration burst upon the scone and attacking the Tibetans drove them with groat loss of life further into the mountains, thereby saving the endangered Chinese from destruction. After ince by the rebels was not s0 do: ermined and General Ma's vanguard accordingly captured Batang on the 26th of July last at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, the General himself and the main army tentering the place two days after.
4th September.
One of the Disastrous Results of the Boycott was soon from the effects of the recent typhoon hero, and is one of the lessons to heart by those who ted such extreme measures as prohibiting the sale at once of all American goods. Owing to this measurer a- large number of the native godowns and stores here had nearly all their available space solidly packed with goods of American manufacture whose sale was being held over until the new treaty should ba revised in accmdance with che wishes of the leader of the boycott. When therefore the water rose to abnormal height rom the typhoon on Friday the owners of the stored goods were unable to remove them in time when the water began to rise above the floors, as all goods that were packed at the bottom began to to the depth of a couple of fest ix some places, and four feet in many others especially those in the native portions of this port. It is stated that
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