Little Hope Left, but Nothing Definitely Known, Peking, Jan, 20.
There have been wvoral Chinese. reports in the past few days at the dead body Knowles, of the British Legation Guard, was seen Lying by the roadside in the Western Hills, in October, shortly after he had left the Trappist Monastery at which
was on leave, ho stopped for a time wile he The Legation declare thet his death cannot yet be considered offcfally confirmed. They are invest. igating the reports of muleteers and others, and probably will issue a ronotingement on the subject shortly.
Tt has been felt for a long ime that there is Tittle "hope that Lieutenant Knowles is alive—in fact, since General Yen Hsi-shan declared that he had no knowledge: of him and that he was not a pri-omer with the Shansi armies the details of his death, like that of the correspondent" of "The "Times," Mr. Basil Riley, may never! definitely be cleared up.—Reuter.
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