at Poking, according to the latest news, prior to the fight of the Empress Dowager, must have been terrible. The policy of Prince Tuan and the Empress Dowager rs to have been to make away with one suspected of friends! foreigners, and all who have spoken in disparaging terms of their beloved Boxers. Even those who were at Srst serried away by the enthusiasm of the e.oment, hut who sitbsequently saw through them and avoided them, have not escaped the general nere, and men like the bigoted react ist Ting Chieh (Manchu) Provincial Tre: saver of Chihli, have also been executed the demand of the Boxer chiefs " for sp ing disparagingly of the patriots.
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