A Tientsin telegram received on Tuesday states that "the Grand Secretary and' Viceroy of Chibli, Jung Lu, started for Peking by special train almost immediately after the receipt of the Empress Dowager's edict commanding his immediate presence at the palace. There was no ceremony of handing over of the seals when Yuan Shih-kai (better-known as the Chinese ex-Resident at Seoul) took over the acting Viceroyship of the Peiya-g Administration." To the superficial observer this last sentence may not mean much, but it really possesses a meaning of the greatest sig cance and political importance. In her words, Viceroy Jung Lu took his seals along with him to Peking, for by the possession of them. he has the supreme control of the armies of Chibli province and the naval forces of the Peiyang Administration, which in a crisis like the p sent makes him the master of the situation. But Jung Lu is a senior member of the Imperial Clan, which powerful body is said to have' considerably. strengthened the hands of the Empress Dowager and of Li Hung-chang in their recent de-Kimperor 5 and abore all things' Jung Ta position, and possibly murder, of the
has the name of being a thorough courtier. The favours and high honours which the Emperor for at least eighteen months past has literally rained upon. this high oicial as a mark of Inuperial esteem and confidence ought to make him anxious to hasten to his Imperial master's side; but there is too much reason to fear that he goes up as one of the leaders of the Imperial Clansmen and chief supporters of the Empress Dowager.
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