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Show MASSING OF TROOPS. Gathering at Chinese Capital, In Spite of Contrary Pledges. Pekin, Nov. 5. Iu spiteof the formal promises of the Chinese foreign oflice, there is every indication of a concerted movement of Chinese troops in the neighborhood of the capitol. It is said Khang Nyi, the Manehu officer who was next in rank to the late Prince Koung in the Kiotm Ki Tshu or council coun-cil of state, has obtained great influence influ-ence over the dowager empress. He is bitterly anti-foreign and hopelessly hope-lessly conservative. It is probable that Kank Nyi was the instigator of the edict re-establishing the bow and arrow exercise for the Chinese soldiers. It is reporter'' that Yuan Sink Ilai, the Chinese general in command of the foreign-drilled troops at Tien-Tsin Tien-Tsin and an officer whose power is much dreaded by the dowager empress and her advisers, has received a grant of money ostensibly for the purpose of increasing the strength of his division of 30,000 men, ''if time shows that the dowager empress can rely upon his fidelity." It has beeu said that Yuan Sink Hai might use his troops in conformity con-formity with the views of the foreign ministers at Pekin. |