A Hsian dispatch received yesterday states that the Empress Dowager has recently been using the episode of the exe caution of Chinese officials ihe confidently gave themselves up to the Allies at Paoting " as her argument against the persuasions of her mors enlightened Ministers to return with the Emperor to Peking. Whenever approached on this subject her inble reply now is: Ifthe Allies have executed the Paotingfu mandarins who gave themselves up to them, what guarantee can you give us that the Allies will not treat the Kraperor and myself in the same way when we return to Peking
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