According to news received from the North it would seem that quite a number of the Prinees, Dukes and Nobles belong-to the Imperial and the Manchu cla did not after all accompany the Emp) Dowager on her flight to the West, some being massacred by Prince Tuan on the charge of intending to betray the Capital to the foreign troops, whilst many escaped to their country estates, north-east of Peking, where they are now supposed tobe. Who following is a list of the higher Court officials who either accompanied, or followed, the Empress Dowager to Shansi, according to a local vernacular paper Princes Ching (since left for Peking), Tuan, Chuang, Ssu, and Na Yen-tu, Ist Order Princes' Lun and Ssu, 4th Order; Dukes Kuei (father-in-law of Emperor), Hu Pu, Kung (descendant of Confucius), Chih, and" Lan; the Assistant Grand Secretaries Kang Yi and Wang Weén-shao; Chao Shu-chiro, President of the Board of Punishments, Ying Nien, Vice-President of the Board of Revenue; several members of the Board of Comptrollers-General of the Tmperial Household Department, all of the members of the Imperial Collese of Physicians, and about one-hale of the Imperial Bodyguards ofthe Presence doing duty at the Chien-tsing Gate of the Imperial Palace. The following military officers in command of brigades necompanied the Empress Dowager as escort: General Ssu Lu-tai (Manchu), brigade of the Peking Field Force Duke Pty, with a brigade of the Hushér Army Corps (Prince tuan's own troops) General Ma, with brigade of General Sung Chin,'s Army Corps, and General Ts'én, with two brigades of General Tung Fu-hsiung's Kansu Army Corps.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.