With the exception of Suifu all the cities north of the Yangtze are in the possession of the Government. Telegraphic communication with Chungking has been restored. Hungehang and Neikiang are quiet. There have been no further developments at Suifu.—Reuter. Peking, Feb. 8.
A mandate states that, according 'o telegrams from the Hunan at thorities, Kueiyang has been vaded by a force under the com-hand of General Tai Kan, who was despatched there by General Tani In addition to the attack of the Yunnanese, the Government has ordered General Li Chang-tsi, Commander of the 8th division of the Northern Army, to march his troops into Hunan, for an attack on Kueichow via Huangchow on the Hunan-Kueichow frontiers, in conjunction with the 10th division of the Northern Army.
The Government has: received reports from the Chiangchun of Shansi concerning the routing of the native bandits in the vicinity of Pinglu and Saratei. It is stated that the city of Tatungfu is quite free from bandits and safe at present. The routed bandits numbered over 1,000 men and were composed chiefly of disbanded soldiers from Outer Mongolia who had been looting at Saratsi Order on the Mong: frontiers is reported to have been restored.
The foreign missionaries Pinglu and Saratsi, though fright tened by the presence of the bandits in their districts, were unhurt and their property, according to Chinese reporte from these two places, was only slightly touched by the insurgenta.
The mandate also says that on the 5th about 1,000 men from Kueichow suddenly raided Huangchow, on the Honan border, looting the city and burning the yamen.
General Tai Kan is an ex-Tsancheng who left Peking with General Tsai Ao.—Reuter.
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