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Show CHINESE SOLDIERS PERISH BY FLAMES CHICAGO. Sept. 17 Five hundred Chinese Chi-nese soldiers were burned to death today, according to a Pekln dispatch received by a Chicago newspaper, in a forest flr started by a large force of Mongols retreating from the Chinese. Generals Hslh and Tzao. proceeding northward from Tonanfu with 5000 men, defeated th Mongols at Chlatsetuan. Tha Mongols fled northward with the Chinese In pursuit. In a forest near Tabchlachu they started a fire, to maintain their stand. The Chinese Chi-nese troops were unable to escape and perished. |