Considerable additions in men and material. to' the troops not only of Peking and its vicinity, but also of Mongolia and Manchuria, are being energetically but quietly pushed ov, and the explanation of these warlike measures is that they are to " fight foreigners with." In consequence of this, the rowdy masses in the north are anxiously awaiting the signal, which certain officials of the Coeer psi clay aap a and have promised to give, for a their Chinese ff The edicts issued into Sawer have inflamed the by the Empress Dowager since comin;
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Tientsia, 2nd December.
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