(4) Owing to the gradual approach of the cold weather we have come to the determination that the contemplated Imperial trip with the Empress Dowager to inspect first the Peking Field Force at the Southern Hunting Parks, on the 19th October next, and eventually to Tientsin to review the tailitary forces of the Peiyang, will be detrimental to Her Majesty's health in her old age and we therefore hereby command all preparations now going on to be forthwith cancelled. We could however, wish to disappoint our troops the matter and therefore hereby command that the sum of Tls. 6,000 he sent as rewards to the troops under Nich Sze-cheng, Provincial Commander-in-Chief of Chihli Tls. 4,000 to the troops under Yuan S! kai, and Tls. 3,000 to the troops under General Tung Fu-hsiang.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.