A Taiyuanfu telegram received here ately states that Huai Ta-pu (Manchu), recently promoted President of the Board of Rites, died on the 25th inst., in a small town in Shansi while en route to Heian to take up his post. This is the same bigot who tried to prevent a reform memorial of one of his secretaries, Wang Chao, from getting to the Emperor in 1898, and was cashiered for hie pains. It was through Huai Ta-pu and Kang Yi's exertions that the coup d'état took place so promptly and unexpectedly.
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