(2) The President "f the Court of Censors reports that he has been unable to arrest the person of Wang Chao, a Metropolitan officer of the 4th grade, and that so far there in no trace of his whereabouts. It is evident that id Wang Chao kas fled in fear of receiving the punishment due for his crimes, But there can be no leniency exercised in his case and we therefore comment that he be cashiered and that the Cowmandant of the Peking Gendarmerie, the Governor 0 Peking, a d the Censors f the Five Ci shall make a strict scare' for his pers The Governor of Poking shall also in: the district mngi-trate of Ninghohs Shuntien prefecture, the native city of the fugitive, to confiseste whatever property he posse+ses there and thit every effort should be made to arrest his person, Not Wang Chao may be said to have caused the climax which brought about the coup "'tut of the Empress Dowager. When 3rd-dus Sec'etary of the Board of Rites, a reform memorial was hended by him tchis superiors, the Presidentsund Vice-Presidents of his Moard, for transmission to the Emperor. His superiors on reading the contents refused to hand the paper to the Throne on the ground that it was revolutionary and asked him to revise his suggestions. This Wang Chao stoutly refused to do, declaring that the Emperor had given permission to memori-ise on any subject and he (\Wang Chino) was only obeying the Tmperial commands. In grest wrath the Manchu President Huai. 'Tapu, using his colleagues' names also, denounced Wang (lino "x a dangerous character and asked the Emperor to cashier the man. The consternation of the old bigots may be imagined when, instead of finding that their request had been granted, the Emperor in great wrath demanded to know their reason for disobeying his special commands and daring to stop a memorial to the Throne. The result was that, instead of getting Wang Chao cash-ered, as they hoped, the denouncers were themselves cashiered; and instead of punishing Wang Chao for his ''insolence"" the Emperor praised him for his courage ug up for his rights and rewarded the rank of a Metropolitan officer of the 4th grade—equivalent to that of a Provincial This edutretemps showed the Conservatives that they were standing on a volcano, that the Emperor was determined to prosecute his reform schemes at all cos's, and that he was ready and willing to use the strong hand, if necessary, should any one dare to that him. The result of all this is only too well-known, and needs no recapitulation now.—Translater.
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