Tt is reported from Hsian that Fan Tseng-hsiang, Provincial Judge of Shensi 2 favourite protege of Yung Tat and a pro: minent Reactionary, is about to be rewarded by the Empress Dowager with the Provincial Treasurership of Honan, in order that his baneful services may be at the call of Lu Ch'uan-lin and other Reactionary advisers. of the Empress Dowager Kaifeng. The ex-Boxer Kuei Eh Vice-President of the Board of Works and rejected Minister to Russia, whose anti-foreign—proclivities hava "made him a marke mn with the Foreign Ministers at Peking and whom a fear of being made to follow the footsteps of the decapitated Ch'i Hsin and Hit Ch'éng: has kept away from the Capital, is suid to be a particularly close friend of Fan 'Tseng-hsiung, who has been heard to Aeclare that if he had his way not a single western barbarian' would now pointing the country seen what sort of Fin Tsing Hsiang and his friends have in store fo their enemies.
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