(1) Li Ping-hong, Governor of Shantung, reports that the post of Brigadier General of Ts'ochou (the most turbulent prefecture of Shantung.—Translator) is a most important one and that it is not good General there, etc. We therefore com-whey to allow only an acting Brigadier
mand that the present incumbent, Wan Pén-hua, who is at present in Wuchang, having been retained there on special duty at the urgent request of the Viceroy Chang Chih-tung, be ordered to resign his present post at once and proceed with all haste to Shantung to take up his proper command (2) It having been reported t" us that some condemned prisoners confined in the gaol of Huaimoubsien, prefecture of
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