First Mail in Ten Days Taken in by Bicycle After Three Days' yy ce oe the geroplanea Both Armies Suffering from Frostbite: Rumours of an Trip: Protests from Peking and Tientsin Fresh Attack Thought Near Peking, Dec. 19.
For the first time in ten days mail reached Peking this morning. It was brought by couriers who bicycled most of the way, and took three days in transit.
It is hoped to despatch an international train for Tientsin to-morrow or Monday, but no passengers except those on official business will be carried—Reuter's Pacific Service,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.