Lu Jen-hsiang, an Optimus of former years, is hereby reappointed Libationer of the Imperial Academy.
Note:—This officer is a member of the Reform Party and was engaged in pushing on reform in his native city of Soochow when the crash came. He then resigned the Directorship of the Bureau of Commerce and of the cotton weaving mills established there by him and was, for a in some fear of being also arrested. Fortunately he was not a very daring reformer and so "made few enemies. Eventually he was advised to return to Peking.—Translator.
13th November.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.