The Grand Council received the other day the following telegraphic dispatch from Acting Governor Wu Yin-sun (formerly Taotai of Ningpo) of Chinese Turkestan:—A number of Tarkis (the name of the aboriginal Mahomedan inhabitants of Chinese Turkestan) have started an insurrection near K'uché, and are being assisted by outlaws from the borders of the Gobi desert and mounted bandits. The consequence is that towns en route and travelling merchant caravans are being ruthlessly plundered and many persons murdered by the outlaws To make matters more complicated the Russian Consul at K'aché under pretence of protecting Russian subjects in that city and vicinity, has called for and obtained a large body of Cossacks from the Russian Consul-General at Kashgar, and these ate giving protection to certain outlaws who, being in danger of capture, claimed Russian subjection. The Acting Governor therefore asks that thenew Tartar General of Ili, Ch'ang Keng, with his foreign. modelled troops, leave Peking without delay to assist in restoring order in Chinese Turkestan. As it will take about throo months to get to Tihua, the capital of Chinese Turkestan, or at least ten weeks by forced marches, it is unlikely that Tartar General Ch'ang Keng can be of any use to the Governor of Chinese Turkestan, and so the Grand Council has telegraphed to Ma Liang, the present Tartar eneral in Ili, instructing him to confer with the Chinese Major-General com-
and cooperate with the Provincial Commander-in-Chief of Chinese Turkestan in anding in Ili, to send assistance south suppressing the insurrection. Instructions, it is stated, have also been sent to take no notice of the claims to Russian protection of men captured in flagrant dolicto, who are to be dealt wi marily as rebel:
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