Now, however, after a tio weeks' monopoly of the edict promulgation she has shown herself to be intensely conservative and non-progressive. All the thoroughly corrupt: Manchus discharged by the Emperor in righteous indignation she has reinstated.
y, once the supreme test of fitness for political advancement, again holds its importance by Her Mjesty's edict. The office of Minister of Trade and Agriculture is abolished. The liberty of a free Press forbidden. And, too, as significant as any of all of tea cis of Her Majesty, an out. break of anti-foreign feeling in Peking more venomous than at any time since the China-Japan war.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.