is oeket in The best informed circles ite reports to the contrary there
of the Foreign Legations' that the Emperor, is alive.
The concerted action of the Foreign Powers in ordering troops to Peking produced a salutary impression.
noteworthy that the Empress-Dowager's appointments are.all antiforeign, and that there: is now no mel of the. Tsung-li Yamen con-
"YOth October.
It instated from authoritative sources here' that the' Empress-Dowager will scion issue an'. edict "cashiering fayouring: th Reform Party: officials,. high: and low, suspected. of who are now. in.strong force in Lien-chou prefecture. These new auxiliaries punishing the editors; and another are stated to be all well-dressed and restoring the -Wenchang essays as the more refined in manner than the older only means of advancement to literary rebels and the chief motto on their honours and official.prefermnet. is "Clear out the traitors who 'The Empress-Dowager havi surround the Throne." searched for and taken "possession Peking, 13th October. all the' reform papers and memorials The Belgian Minister has assured and secret documents preserved by the Emperor, has made out a Jong list of the Chinese Government that notwithstanding all rumours to the contrary, officials and scholars she inten shall the Belgian Syndicate will fall its made to feel her displeasure, remise to finance the Lu-Han railway. 12th October.
At the Legations it is not thought Huang Chun-hsien is to be ordered that Li Hung-chang is an important to return to his native city. (Canton) factor in the present crisis, where he will be placed under the 'Thirty-two Japanese troops arrived surveillance of the local authorities. at Peking to-day, and the arrival [This is the Taotai's guest at the Bureau ofall these parties is producing a serious' of Foreign Affairs in the Bubbling Well impression in the Palace. Prince Ching was sent to entreat the Legations not
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