Peking, Feb. 19, Tne Tartar General of Ili has been summoned to Peking by telegram. There are in the province of Ili at present of troops really fit for service in one riner troops at Tarbagacee thousand men, and At Uramtsi in Mongolia there is in garrison nominally one brigade under Brigade-Geoeral Chou Chia-fen, but really only one regiment incompletely armed and without artillery, Hey Cur-six, who isa member of the Hanlin Academy, has been sppointed to be Assistant rand Secretary and Vice-President of the Mivistry of the Civil Appointments.
Tokio, Feb. 19, Proreston Kitazato, who has been inspecting the plague-infected districts of Mancharis, lise stated before crowded meeting in Tairen that the plague epidemic in Manchuria is without doubt pneamonic plague; but that it is possible to suppress the epidemic by scientific means, This was proved by the fact that there had been no new oases in Tairen for a fortnight, thanks to the energetic preventive measures taken by the Japanese Government, which would again be taken with the same success if plague should re-enter the port. If the same measures which had been taken in Tairen were to be adopted in the whole of Manchuria, Dr. Katazato is firmly convinced that the whole plague epidemic would be entirely extinguished in a very hart time, He exhorted the population to resume all work in face of the fally efficient measures of the authorities, Peking. Feb. 20.
The Waiwapn has addressed Note to the Diplomatic Body, in which it rotates the jastness of the six Russian demands contained in the Note delivered to Ten Chis-lai, the President of the Waiwapo, by M. Korostovetz on the 16th instant. The Note farther says that Ohina has never violated the terms conceded to her by the Treaty. The ight gi
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