is said to be very ill ogum, and the Empress Dowager ins post wed her annual rest at Eho Park. The son of one of the highest officials in Peking told me that he did not believe there tras any chance whatever thut His Majesty Kuang Hsii would again be on the throne. The official is a great favourite of the Empress Dowager, and probably knows the plans of the Old Lady" as well as any one in the capital, and his opinion is that Kuang Hei will never leave the Palace and never reign again.
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