Reliable word has just reached me that BLE. Li Hung-chang has been appointed Minister to Russia, No particulars known, other than that he is to start on the 15th of next month, Such appointment raises the query, is it the result -f his enemies' scheming to get him away from Peking? Or is it the influence of the Empress: Dowager sending the best man they have to maintain the rights of China against the encroachments of Russia? Such a man is needed here as well as there. Poor China Lith February.
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