The Archive · 1900

Reported Residence of the Court

A Shansi telegram dated 30th ultimo Herma (or Houma), a large telegraph ion im Shansi, a little to the southwest of Taiyuan, the provincial exit received by local mandarins, reports the Emperor and Empress Dowager arrived safely at Tuyoan, and are now temporarily staying in the Governor's (the notorious Yui Hsien) yamé

LU CHUAN TIS, substantive Governor of Kiangsu, who took with him some 5,000 troops from Soochow last July for the purpose of "rescuing the Emperor" at Peking, and who had only reached as far us the Shantung-Kianysu borders when Peking fell, is now en route for Taiyuan via Honnn province, with his army vow greatly reduced by desertions

Pel upon receipt of the news of the fall of

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