Reuters Correspondent here does not like to be asked if Prince Kung is dead, a question that is frequently put to him' at the Club, Correspondents sometimes. get their information ahead of time and the expected event does not come off.
The Prince is certainly in a precarious condition, however, as the Emperor and Empress Dowager have been to see him three times in the past week.
The physicians, so called, of the Tai 1 Yuan are in disgrace, as two of their number having failed to restore him to consciousness after a swoon, an outsider of some reputation from the South, named Yao, gave him s potion upon which he regained his senses. It is considered that the end is not fat off
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