The Commandant of the Gendarmerie is hereby ordered to select a detachment of reliable and trustworthy gendarmes for duty to patrol the streets in the vicinity of the foreign legations. They are commanded to arrest any persons who may venture to create a disturbance within. those precincts.
'RESTORATION OF Wen-chang.
The edict formerly abolishing the writing of Wen-chang at the literary examinations (1) I, the Dowager-Empress Tze-hsi-tuan-yn, ete., etc, hereby acknowledge the receipt of the' Grand Secretary Jung Lu's memorial reporting the date of his receipt of the Great Seal of Office appointing him Generalissimo of—the armies of Chihli province and the Peiyang Adatinistration, and the consequent taking over of the suid post by him. Now as ines are exevedingly critical the organising and disciplining of armies is a matter of the first importance and t" emphasise Jung Lu's post Iam constrained to further appoint him Imperial High Commissioner with supreme command over the Yi Army Corps, under General Sung Chting (at wehwang and Shanhaikuan);—the wsu Army Corps, under General Tung Fu-hsiang (just inside the Great Wall); the Wuyi Army corps, under General Nich Sze-ch'éng, Provincial Commander-in-chief of Chibli (ut Lutai, south of the Tongshan colliery); the New Army Corps, under the expectant Vice-President Board, Yuan Shih-kai (at Hsinochan, near Tientsin); and the various corps, m and naval, in the Peiyang Admi tien, This will place the forces nround Peking under the command of a single head, ani the said Jung Lu having been given such a highly responsible post is expected to use every effort in personally
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