ete, ete. have Sung Ching sta he has been unable to cure his ies of late and praying permission to stop at Chinchou to recruit his health. I greatly respect this aged and famous general, and he has further distinguished himself by the discipline he has kept his Iirge army under late. I therefore command that, as a mark of special grace, a few pivees of ginseng be sent to him for the stre jug of his constitution and thst who he has reyeine t his health he is ones to Shavhaikuan and make that' place his headquarters, where he is to diligently rill and exercise his whole army and thus lessen our deep anxiety fur the safety of our frontiers.
[Note: Itis very sizniticant to find in this decree that Shanhaikuan is mentioned as being on the frontiers" of the empire—Ep. N.-0, Daily News.]
MILITARY OFFICERS CASHIERED, We hereby command that Kuo Liang, Lient.-Colonel of the Leichou battalion and Li Kuo-tung, Second Captain of the Haichéng battalion, be forthwith cashiered for misconduct degrading to the ser which has been proved by recent vestigations made by Tan Chun; Viceroy of the 'T'wo Kuang provinces.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.