(1) Sung Ching, Commander-in-Chief of the Wuyi Army Corps, is hereby restored to all his honours and titles, and the penalty of "degradation but to remain in office" hitherto placed against his name in the records of the Board of War is hereby ordered to be erased.
[Note—General Sung Ching's proper titles, at the commencement of the war with Japan in 1894, were brevet Junior Guardian of the Heir-Apparent, premier button, and Provincial Commander-in-chief of Szechuan. These titles were taken away from him in 1895 owing to his defeats fat the hands of the Japanese and are only now restored to him, although he never
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