Whatever outsiders may feel with regard to the future ownership of the Manchurian provinces, the Manchus themselves seem to consider that there is nothing to be feared from the insidious Muscovite, and blind to the menacing movements of the Russians still continue to order the penditure of huge sums of money on the perfectly useless work of repairing the imperial Ancestral tombs and mausolea in the vicinity of Moukden from whence sprang the ancestors of the present Department of State Afairs, were con-occupants of the 'Dragon' Throne" of sidering the feasibility of establishing a China. A Moukden dispatch now states Ministry of Commerce on the same lines that Tseng Ch'i, the Tartar General and as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It ig quasi-Viceroy of Fengtien (Lower Manchuria) has reported to the Throne, that is now stated from Peking that this has obtained the sanction of the Throne and tosay, the Empress Dowager, that he has spent all of the'Tls. 3,000,000 sent acoupleof that it is reported that Chi Hung-chi, years ago by her orders to him to repair President of the Ministry of Foreign the Imperial mausolea, etc., in question Affairs, has been proposed as President of "which was sufficient only to repair about the new institution with Wu Ting-fang, one-third of the work." The Tartar retiring Chinese Minister to the US., og General now demands another Tis.
3,600,000, or more, to complete the task The Northern Entrance into the assigned him, declaring that his: hands are so bound by the Kussians that he finds _it is reported from Peking that Che Yangtze Valley. it-impossible to raise any extra funds without the consent and assistance of his Transport and the Grand Canal, has me-Kuei-lung, Director-General' of Grain "masters." Yet in spite of such a declaration, which should have made the cheeks morialised the Throne recommending the abolition of the post now held by him, of any loyal and patriotic official, with the least touch of feeling in him, to burn with owing to the transference of the carriage shame to*acknowledge, and to his own of the annual tribute rice to Peking through the Grand Canal from that water-sovereign last of all, the powers that be way to the sea route. "But," declared in Peking scornfully flout the idea that the memorialist, "in view of the restless-the land of their ancestors will ever be ness of a certain foreign Power in that seized by such a friendly Power as the part of the Empire, it will be dangerous to Government of the Czar and persist in entirely abandon the region to the care squandering funds on useless work instead merely of Taotais and prefects who have of applying the money in organising a no military power in their hands to speak: modern armed and disciplined army to of; hence it is strongly recommended that hold the land. with the abolition of the Director-General-A "Strike" at the Imperial ship of Grain Transport, a high official, yang College. such as a Tartar General, should be ap-There is considerable comment and a pointed with headquarters in Lingching, feeling almost akin to consternation in Shantung and a strong force under his local mandarin circles owing to an incident immediate command." which occurred on Saturday, the 15th "To Assist the Emperor." inst., at the Imperial Nanyang College at The " Sinwenpao" has the following Sicawei. It appears that many of the It is reported that Prince Chun may students enjoyed reading a Reform news-probably cuter the Grand Council.. Tt Paper published in Singapore called the Seems that in view of her advancing old "Hsin Min Ch'ung Pao," or "News for age, the Empress Dowager is apprehensive. Renorating the People," edited by the that she and the Emperor may not be well-known Reformer, Liang Ch'i-chao, able by-and-by to perform all the duties. the principal disciple and follower of Kang incumbent on them and she thinks of ad-Yii-wei. As a matter of fact this news-mitting the Emperor's younger brother paper contains all up-to-date news, like as a probationary Grand Councillor to fit-all modern papers, and as a rule its lead-him for the post of assistant to the Em-ing articles and comments are lively and peror on some future day. There is a most entertaining, while containing further rumour that the Empress Dowager nothing seditious against the reigning; had at first fixed upon the enlightened dynasty, as one would have supposed it Prince Ssu for the high post, but that she would be, taking into consideration its desisted owing to the strenuous and per-'The only thing that, would sistent refusal of that Prince. make the "Hsin Min Ch'ung Pao" objectionable to a Conservative is its advanced—to the ordinary bigoted native—ideas being made up much on the lines of the present day Japanese newspaper. The BOOKS, ETC, student readers of the "Hsin Min Ch'ung
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