It appears that, besides King Yii-wei, Liang Ch'i-chao (ex-Editor of Chinese Progress), Wang Dao (the junior Secretary. wh the cause of the dismissal of the Presidlentsand Vice-Presidents of his Board in Japan, other members of the Reform Party with them, most of whom are also proscribed and with a price on th heads. Amo the ci lit are a few well-known names, such as the Censor Sung Peh-lu whose m-morials were instru-1 ing the dismissal of Li shih, ex-Censor and Sub-Chancellor of the Grand Secretariat, who was cashiered in 1896 at the instance of the Empress Dower for holdly advocating reforms and urging the Emperor to take the sole government of the Empire in his own hands, and finally, whose friendship with Kang Yii-wei was the cause of a secret decree the other day for his summary execution in his native province of Kiangsi Wen's younger brother an M. A. who though "not well-known outside Kiangsi power amongst the literati and gentry inside; Dr. Sun Yatsen, the Reformer, whom Minister Kang illegally imprisoned in the Chinese Legation in London about three Years ago, preparatory to his being smug led to China for execution by the slicing: process; and four prominent members of the-Kuangtung gentry, sympathisers with the Reform movement, who being unknown to the authorities at Peking have not been proscribed, but who apparently have boldly thrown in their lot with Kan and his Keformers. Among these four is said to be a retired General who distinguished himself in the war in Tongki 1884, hut who eventually, refusing to br his superior officers at the head of alli at Canton in order to obtain substan command, when peace was restored, threw up his commission and retired into pti life. This ex-General has been travelling in Kurope and the United States incog. for the Inst six or seven years, visiting various small arms factories and gun found-ties and military organisations abroad, and will probably he " prominent figure in the coming revolution.
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