By arrangement with Chang Chuns-chang, the lender of the in-'Shantung, General Lig yesterday' opened the gates of the beslowed city of Mu-ping, ostensib A timber of is, awaver, were Accom Tod of General Liu's soldiers racked General Chang, Chung Uver amd four hundred men, Apr 8
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Tost Chefoo, of xaualties upon the insurgent forces Jed by Chang Chung-chang, one: time Tuchun of Shantung.
The hospitals here have already Deen filled with wounded men and the new arrivals that come pouring in every day are adding considerably to the congestion A very conservative estimate of} the casualties so far sustained by Change Chung-chang's forces in the! siege of Muping is 1.500. The insurgent leader states that he is! determined to remain at the Muping front until the city capitulates, Last Friday General Liu Chen-union secreted soldiers in evacuated houses onside the These mon met gun fire, inflicting several hundred eusualties, In consequence of this setback, Chang Chung-chang razed to the ground all houses surroanding the city walls—Reuter.
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