Lu, Grane Secretary and Generalissimo of the armies North of the Yellow River, has lately evinced considerable dissatisfaction owing to the anomalous position he considers himself to he in, as regards the last ife, and claims that unless he hay fall all the forees to dispose of as he considers best, the country will ruined at the last_ moment by. a conflict of authority. This is owing to the fact that Prince Ching is Commander-in-Chief of the Peking'Field Force, numbering some 25,000 men, which naturally looks toh for orders in all things inst Generali Moreover, Jung Lu, not being a hereditary noble, is power against a Prince who would naturally refuse to take orders from "a com-monet, however high his rank may be.
Lu has a project of bringing northern forces under one single organisation such a division of authority has naturally interfered not " little with his scheme, which has so disgusted him that twice already has he resigned his post as Generalissimo within the last six weeks. This_was, perhaps, done in order to force the Empress Dowager into public opposition to Prince Ching, who is backed by all the other Princes," Dukes, and nobles the Imperial 'Court, who consider Jung Lu an interloper' holding a post naturally belonging to a Prince of the Blood. "Thus matters appear to stand, while the palace is said to be a very
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