A native correspondent sends us the followin list of high, Chinese and Manchu officials of the Ist and 2od rank who died this year, which may be of interest to those of our readers who keep a watch on political events in this country. The following are the names of those of the Let rank 1.—Ngeh-la-ho-pu (Manchu), Grand Seretary. Died of old age just before the disturbances in Peking. Anti-foreign.
2.—Hsii Tung (Chinese Bannernian), Grand Secretary. Committed suicide in his country house 10 miles from Peking, upon fight of Empress Dowager. Strongly Anti-foreign.
3.—Kang Yi (Manchu), Assistant Grand Secretary. Died in October, of fright and exhaustion, at Wénhsihsien, Shansi province, while following Refugee Court to Heian. Head of the Anti-foreign Party at Court—a bigot of bigots.
4.—Hsi Ching (Manchu), President of the Board of Civil Appointments. Committed suicide when Allies entered Peking in August. Anti-foreign.
3.—Hsii Fu (Kiangsu man), Chinese President of the Board of Civil sppointments, Died of illness in Shansi while following Refugee Court to T*aiyuay from Peking." Anti-foreign.
6.—Ch'ung Yi (Manchu), President of the Board of Revenue, father-in-law of the late Emperor Tang Chih, and Grand Preceptor of. the Heir-Apparent. Committed suicide at Paoting, following the flight of the Empress Dowager after fall of Peting. Strongly Anti-foreign.
7.—Li Shan (Mongol), President of the Board of War. Executed by order of Prince Tuan in June for opposing the Boxers. Moderate Reform Party.
8.—Hsii Yung-yi (Kiangsu man), Chinese President of te Board of War. Executed by order of Prince Tusn in August for opposing Boxers, Moderate Reform Party.
9.—Kuei Hong (Manchu), ex-Tartar General of Uliasutai, Northern Chinese Turkestan. Committed suicide upon entrance of Allies into Peking. Anti-foreign, 10.—Hsii Shu-ming (Hunanese), President of Court of Censors. Died just before disturbances in Peking. Anti-foreign.
11,—Ch'én Hsid-fen (Hupeh), Chinese President of the Board of Works. Died at Tungkuan Pass in November of while en route from Peking to Hsi take up his appointment,—Anti-for but opposed to Boxers, who tried te murder him in June while riding in his sedan chair from Palace to his otice. He was left for dead on the streets by the Boxers, but afterwards recovered. Moderate Reform li Lu (Manchu), Viceroy of Chihli.
in battle of Yangtsun, Chihli, fighting against Allied troops, August. Antiforeign.
13.—Li Ping-hong (Chinese of Lower Manchuria—Féngtien), cashiered Viceroy Szechuan, appointed General of Army to rescue the Empress Dowager. Committed suicide after battle near T*ungchou (Peking) with Allies, August. Anti-foreign and Conservative, on a par with Kang Yi and as Movdthirsty.
14.—Tséng Ch'i (Manchu), Tartar General of Lower Manchuria, committed suicide at Moukden, August, upon approach of Russian troops." Anti-foreign.
Shan (Manchu), Tartar General of Heilungchiang (Northern Manchuria or Chinese Amur region). He was the first to carry the war into the enemy's territory in July by attacking Blagovestchensk. Committed suicide near Tsitsihar im September upon subsequent defeat at the hands of the Russians. Strongly Anti-foreign.
16.—Yen Mao (Chinese Bannerman), Tartar-General of Kirin. Committed suicide, September, after defeat at hands of Russians, and loss of city of Kirin, Moderate.
17.—Chang Chitin (Kansu), Chief of Staff to Yung Lu, Generalissimo of Grand Army of North. Sirongly Anti-foreign and rival of General Tong Fuchsiang. Died of spleen at Peking just before troubles in Peking.
18,—Lo Yung-kusng (Hunsnese), General commanding Taku forts, Tientsin. Killed during the taking of ssid forts, 17th June, by Allied fleet. "Moderate Reform Party.
19.—Nieh Sze-ch'éng (Anhui), Provincial Commander-in-Chief of Chili.' Killed in battle at taking of Tientsin by Allies, 9th July. Moderate Reform Party.
20.—Sung CI (Shantung), Provincial Coromande ief of Szechuan, commanding Le*t Wing of Grand Army of the North. Died of old age (88 years old) soon after flight of Court from Peking, while in command of troops covering Paoting, capital of Chibli. Moderate Reform Party.
The following are the names of those of the 2nd ran!
1.—Hsii Ching-ch'éng(Chékiang), Chineso Senior Vice-President of the Board of Civil Appointments, Beheaded by order of Prince Tuan for advocating peace instead of war with Foreign Powers, 29th July.
2.—Hsii Ch'eng-vii (Chinese Bannerman), Vice-President Board of Punishments. Committed suicide upon fall of Peking. Anti 3.—Li_Tuan-vii (Shantung), Chinese Senior Vice-President of the Court of the Censors. Died en roue to Hsan in the wake of the Refugee Court, October. Anti-foreign.
4.—Hua Chin-shou (Chibli), Literary Chancellor of Fukien. Died in June while en route to his bust, on receipt of news that his entire family hid been massacred by Boxers near Peking. Moderate Reform Party.
5.—Chang Yin-huan (Kuangtung), Chinese Senior Vice-President of the Board of Revenue, cashiered and banished to Chinese Turkestan in 1898 after coup d'état. Secretly strangled in prison in June by order of Empress Dowager upon news of fall of Taku forts, for fear he would escape from exile and join the Foreign Powers, Moderate Reform Party 6.—Chén Pao-chen (Shantung), Governor of Hunan, cashiered after coup d'état 1-98, Died of illness in March, Strong Reformer.
7.—Fu Jiin (Manchu), ex-Governor of Shantung. Committed suicide, August, during occupation of Peking by Allies, with whole family. Anti-foreign.
8.—Wang Yiitsao (Hupeh), Governor of Kueichou. Died in April. Strongly (Manchu), Brigade manchuria. Killed in August fighting against Russians at Lino-yang, south of Moukden. Strongly Antiforeign.
10.—Chin Ch'ang (Manchu),. Died as above. Also Anti-foreign, 11.—Lien Yuan (Manchu), Minister of Tsungli Yamen. Executed by order of Prince Tuan, 11th August, for opposing war with Foreign Powers. Reform Party.
12.—Ch'en Yi (Kiangsu), Governor of Peking. Murdered by Boxers for opposing them at Court in July, Moderate Reform Party.
13.—Ho Shu (Honan), ex-Provincial Treasurer of Shansi. Died just before troubles in Peking at his home in Honan province. Strongly Anti-foreign.
14.—Ting Chieh (Manchu), Provincial Treasurer of Chihli. Enthusiastic patron of Boxers. Called to Peking in July to assist Prince Tuan in organising Boxers, He eventually got disgusted with atrocities of Boxers and strongly condemned them before the Empress Dowager. He was subsequently ordered to be executed on Lith August. Strongly Anvi-foreig:
15.—Ting Yung (Manchu), Provincial Treasurer of Chihli, Executed in October by Allied forces at Paoting for connection with the murder of missionaries in Chihli province while he was Provincial Judge, Anti-foreign.
16.—Yuan Ch'ang (Chekiang), Minister of Tsungli Yamen, Executed by order of Prince Tuan for opposing war with the Foreign Powers and insisting on the suppression of Boxers. Died at same time as Hsii Ching-cheng above noted. Strong Reformer.
There were also a Prince and a Duke who died in consequence of the present troubles in the north, namely, K'ai T'ai, Prince of Cheng, 1st Order, who died jof exhaustion at Hsian after performing the journey from Peking with the Refugee Court; and Duke Paots'u, who died of illness en route.
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