(2) Tian Chi-hsun, retiring Governor of Hupeh, need not come to the Capital fur audience; he is to return to his native province (Hunan) at once.
Note.—This ex-Governor is the father of the lately martyred T'an Sze-tuny, the chief of the six young Reformers who were execute! without trial on the 28th of September. By Chinese law the father of T'an Sze-tung should also have been punished for the treason of the son, but it is stated on reliable authority that, whi Man Sze-tung, was recommended to the Emperor by Governor Ch'én of Hunan in July of the same year, the futher, then Governor of Hupeh, memorialised the Throne saying that his son was unworthy of the Imperial favour, that the young man was filled with radical views About reform, distinctly opposed to the constitution of the country, and finally. that he (the memorialist)' declined all responsibility for the future conduct of his son should the Emperor decide to give the man any power. This memorial saved the ex-Governor and the rest of his fumily from proscription when the eldest _son become insolsed in the ruin of the Reform Party; but the old man was made to farl the "disgrace" all the same by being for-hidden an audience on leaving his post.
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