(1), Prince Ching, Ist Order, and Na Yen-tu, Prince of the Khalkha Mongols, Ist Order, are hereby appointed Inspectors-General of Palaces.
Yang Chung-yi, Censor, is hereby given a provincial appointment and appointed prefect of Hanchungfu, Shensi province.
Note:—This Censor is one of Jung Lu's favourite parasites, who made himself obnoxious to his patron's great rival, Prince Ching, in the bitter fight between the two for supremacy in the Councils of the Empress Dowager, The result has been that, during a lull in the intrigues and before slong Tu was aware of it, Prince Ching artfully recommended his rival's protege for the Hanchungfu prefectship, the issuing of the above decree coming like a thunderclap in a clear sky to Jung Lu and his follows.—Translator.
(8) Decree giving assent to the promotions recommended by Prince Ching, as Commander-in-Chief of the Peking Field Force, to x number of the military officers of the Force for good conduct aid attention to duty during the three years just passed: these recommendations being made triennially.
Note:—The Peking Field Force used to consist of some 25,000 Manchus, composing infantry cavalry and artillery (field and mountain batteries), but since the war with Japan and usurpation of the Empress Dowager the Field Force has been doubled in number.—Trenslator, CONCERNING THE TRAGEDY 18 THE CHINESE, LEGATION, PARIS, 18 1898, (4) With reference to the report of the Board of Civil Appointments on the punishments due to Clring Chang (Manchu), ex-Minister to France and holding the rank of President of the Ceremonial Court, for ving been unable to keep members of his legation in proper discipline resulting in the suicide of a member and the at. tempted suicide of another, the said Board recommends that, according to law, the suid Ch'ing Ch'ang should be cashiered and dismissed the service. We hereby exercise our prerogative of mercy and command that the accused be degraded of his rank and titles but shall, in the meantime, be permitted to retain his post. The same mercy is also extended to Wang Chang, an expectant prefect of Kiangsu (the member who attempted suicide) whose sentence of degradation of three steps in rank and transferment to an equivalent post is hereby commuted to degradation of the said three steps in rank but with retention of his present post.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.