Show I 1 french exploring Eipl orine party threatened bilth calamity special f r chronicle service servi ca 1 ST jan 3 de patches from chinese border province which were received at auldia and forwarded thence to st peters buri report the precipitate cretu n into the russian territory of the russian expedition beaded headed by two brothers named grum grain and these gentlemen bad had threatened to use their arma arms if chinese officials attempted allenip ed to prevent their passing the province of kolkov nor accordingly tho the viceroy ot of the province gave them ethem to understand that their passport did not confer on them the right to enter hia his country but Aless rs grain and who are young and men treated hia his remonstrance in a very light spirit and behaved in a 11 most cavalierly manner toward the cicery I 1 the be result was that incidents occurred which would almost certainly have bad had the gravest consequence to th two explorers explore ra and their part aa hd d not the viceroy of the province bordering on koufou nor ad advised the of fiers i ersin in command oa on the frontier to meet the threats and violence of the russians in a temperate spirit already stilted stated grum grain and griam a ailo ilo had I 1 to baat bi at a retreat it should be added that prior to their mollielou colli elou with the officials of korkor nor they had narrowly escaped being faasa a arod cro 1 with their whole party by the clinese p population of jania ja m whom they bad had incensed ince nEeJ by their inconsiderate in c consid conduct Accordi according nj to information from another quarter a french traveller 31 jose joseph pt L martin lartin who is ia at present leading an expedition to bet is only advancing at the risk lie he is described as encompassed by perile net only from a vory ry hostile native D a five population but from his own followers these men p perpetually I 1 petua lly deserting and by the 11 advises there appeared reason to fear some sudden tre treason of a worse i nature |