Imperial Household Department for a The preparations begun recently by the
lengthened stay of the Empress Dowager at Eho Park during the warm weather, in regard to which extra precautions were to have been taken to guard the Empress Downger aguinst treachery or a supposed coup wétat by the Emperor's friends, in the shape of a double line of fortified' guardhouses and two extra regiments of the Imperial guards, have been suddenly stopped by the Empress Dowager's express commands, It seems that her Ministers used every argument to deter the Empress Downger from going to Eho Park—her favourite residence—this year on the ground that she would be safer in Peking against any attack, it being feared that an' attempt at assassination would be made during some of her journeyings to and from Eho Park and the " Forbidden City." But the Empress Dowager refused to listen to her Ministers' exhortations. On the contrary, the Imperial Household Department was commanded to hasten the preparations for her reception, But now, at the reiterated advice of het nepher, the Generalissimo and Grand Secretary Jung Lu, orders have been sent countermanding the preparations, and an edict has been' given out saying that the Empress Dowager has "decided to stay at Peking during the coming summer and that she will not go to Eho Park as at first stated." People are wondering what it was that made the Empress Dowager change her mind, One story is that when it was found the Empress "Dowager neither feared assassination nor coup estat, her Ministers decided to get the one man whom she generally listened to, her nephew Jung Lu, to make one lust attempt to stop the proposed departure. Jung Lu undertook the task and, knowing his Aunt's fear of the Russians, used their name to prevent her departure. Now that the Empress Dowager holds the reins of government, her sojourn at Eho Park would compel all the Presidents, Vice Presidents, and secretarial staff of the Six Boards and Nine Ministries to move bag and baggage and live near the atk.
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