A Chengtu, capital of Szechuan, dis-pitch reports that upon receiving' news from Hsian that a large number of the Princes and Ministers following the Re Fuge Court had mem riatised the Emp Dowager to continue her flight to chuan, Viceroy Kei Chun of thet pro at once gwe orders for the refitting repairing of the old places of the Tan; dynasty in Chészta, in order to be prepared for the coming of the Court, Fariher that it was rumoured in Chengtu that some fifteen eunuchs and other palace officials, sympathisers of the Emperor, had been recently beaten to death by the Empress Dowager at Hsiav, discovered iv an attempt to assist the Emp2ror in getting away secretly from Hsian in order to return to Peking alone.
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