Reliable dispatches from the North give the following list of high officials in Peking and elsewhere who have met death, since the troubles up North, either by their ow hand, or executed or slain by the enemy bullets: Yi Lu, Viceroy of Chihli, suicide, after taking of Tientsin by the allies General Nich, Commander-in-Chief Chihli provincial forces, slain duftag taking of Tientsin; Li Ping-hong, notorious High Commissioner of the Yangtze pro-inces, slain during battle at_ Hosiwu Hsit Ching-cheng, Yuan Chang, Hu Yung-i x misters of the Tsung-Ting Chieh, Provincial Treasurer. of ili, formerly a Boxer chief, Chin President of the Board of Revenue, Shan, Vice-President of the Board of Revenue, Shou Tsun, of Civil Appointments, names not transpired, ders of Prince Tuan' or murdered his Boxers; and finally the Secretary Hsii Tung, the most. conserva tive of conservatives in Peking, and Wang Yi-yung, President of the Imperial demy, suicide with their respective families, old and young then res in the North, With reference to Hsii Tung, who was over 80 years of age, he fled toa country farm-horse of his some 12 miles cast of Peking upon the arrival of the Allied troops near the Capital, and upon Iearning of the flight of the Empress Dowager he committed suicide accompanied at the same time by his sons, grandsons, and most of their women and children. There are rumours of Hsii Tung having committed suicide in the Wuying Throne-hall, he being its Keeper, but this is doubtful in the face of late and more reliable news. Wang Yi-yung, the above noted President of the Imperial Academy, committed suicide with his whole family in Peking on the arrival of the Allied troops there and it is stated that over 200 families of high official did the same thing at the time.
I3th Sept.
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