asto the reason of such a grand " mobile sation" of General officers. The consultation In question took Ince three days ago in the Empress wwager's Palace, at which there were present Jung Lu, Generalissimo. of the Chinese armies of the North; his four Gener of Camps, Sung Ch'ing, Tung Fu-hsiang (these two hold the rank of Marshal, i.e, Ktng-pao), Nieh Sze-cheng, and Yuan Shih-kai; and Princes Ch'ing and Tuan, Commandant General and " Vice-Commandant-General, respectively, of the Peking Field Force and other Manchu troops in the capital, The result was Kept secret, the greatest care being taken to clour out all but the most trusted eunuchs and Palace officers on duty from the Throne+hall. It is also significant of the signs of the times that
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