The climate of the border country in Yunnan is so unhealthy that every two or three yours the Throne is asked to confer posthumous honours on officers who have succumbed to its effects. A list is now furnished by the Vicevoy of seventy-seven officials engaged in frontier defence work who during the last two years have either fallen in battle or died from malarial fever, and sanction is requested for the bestowal of the us tial tokens of respect to their memory.
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