By a Decree which the Empress Dowager issued last year on the receipt of an honorary title, permission was granted to the provincial authorities to bring to the notice of the Throne the merits of any officer who had in their opinion wrongfully suffered degradation, the only exception to this rule being the case of those who had been certain other Provincial Commanders are cashiered for dishonesty, incompetency, or appointed Junior Guardians of the Heir failure to come up to the prescribed stand-
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