A Nanking oficial dispatch received here yesterday states: that as soon as the news of the attack onthe Taku forts became known to the high officials of the Yangtze provinces, Viceroy Liu K'un-yi at the head of the Governors of Kiangsu (Lu Ch'uan-lin), Anhui (Wang Chih-chun), and Kiangsi (Sung Shou, Manchu), sent a joint memorial by telegraph to the Empress wager. The memorial urged that a fatal mistake had been committed by her advisers in encouraging and assisting the Lhe-chuan outlaws in their attacks on foreigners, bringing the Government thereby to war with the whole of Europe and the United States, when China could not even defeat a small country like Japan in 1894-5; that this course had imperilled the very existence of the Manchu dynasty and that therefore it was the duty of every patriot and loyal officer of the dynasty to combine forces and march at once to Chilli to exterminate these pests. It was further claimed that as soon as the Foreign Powers saw that the Government was in earnest in suppressing the outlaws and all who went about disturbing the peace, the Foreign Powers would at nce stop their hostile operations and leave it to diplomacy to discuss their claims, etc. The memorialists were, therefore, now prepared to combine forces for an instant march into Chihli and Peking to aid the Goveroment in destroying the I-ho-chuan outlaws, were ready to. send 50,000 men completely armed and provided with supplies for a six months campaign, and that they only waited the Evopress Dowager's permission to start for the North. Further delay would destroy the foundations of the dynasty, as tens of thousands of foreign troops were even now nearing China to do what itis clearly the duty of the Imperial Government to perform,
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