An official at Hsian who has exceptional opportunities of gaining reliable information about the Empress Dowager's movements and thoughts through those who constantly wait upon her, has recently written to his family residing in Shanghai that he hay been assuced by a certain favourite of the Empress Dowager, and he believes it, to be true, that her Majesty determined not ty accompany the Emperor to Peking, but will travel with his Majesty only as fat as K'aifengfo, en pital of Honan province, and there remain until she is assured that there is no more danger of further harm from the Foreign Powers,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.