(2) Another decree of the Empress Dowager in reply to the memorial of Prince Ch'ing who was ordered to inspect the Kansu troops who had arrived outside Peking from Kansu, under the command of General Tung Fu-hsiang. The memorial: Was very favourable to these troops and the Empress Dowager accordingly bestows a quantity of jade-stone ornaments and pieces of silk and satin from the Imperial looms of Soochow and Hangchow to General Tung and his officers, and also Tls. 10,000 to the soldiers to be handed by the Board of Revenue at once to General Tung for distribution.!_Note:—These troops after crushing the Mahommedan Rebellion in Kansu, the year previous, were specially ordered to Peking to serve as a special escort should the Empress Dowager and her Court find it ne-[cessary, owing to Russian aggressions, to move the capital to Hsian, capital of Shensi province.—Translator.
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