CHINA DAILY NEWS."
5th December.
(1) Special decree of Empress Dowager commanding the Board of Revenue at Heian, to hand Governor Tsen of Shensi province the sum of Tls. 40.000 for d tribution to the inhabitants of the fami 6 receipt of Ting Ch'ang, Duke of Chibyihsingyung, 1st class Lieutenant-General of the White {Hanchiin Banner Corps. Posthumous honours are granted, and his black marks are ordered to be erased from the oficial records.
(8) Siang Pu (Manchu) is appointed General Commanding the Bordered Blue Banner Corps of the Imperial Guards.
(4) Sung Fen (Manchu), Viceroy of the Yun Kuei provinces, in hereby ordered to 2 to Kansu and exchange poste with Wei uang-tao, Viceroy of the Shen-Kan provinces, who is ordered to Yunnan.
Note:—The above exchange of posts is due to a jealous.hostility, dating from 1895, between Viceroy Wei Kuang-tao and Geveral Tung Fu-hsiang, whoa return Kansu as Commandet-in-Chief of that vines it is apprehended at Hsisn mar Pie! a renewal P active fighting bur like forces of the two men, Yj.gneo" Kuang-tao is a Hunanese 9-4 jig hav him " force of 20,000 Binanese in Kanne while, of course, Geveral Tung Fuchsiengs is the besd of the military element Kansu province, At the closing of the Mahomedan Rebellion in 1806, the jealousy culminated into pitched battles between them whenever and wherever they met. Peace was finally maintained by sending Wei Kuang-tao and his Hunanese crush the mahomedans in. the western ssu, while Tung Fu-hsing the eastern portion of the This hostility between Kansu and Hunsn troops is still existent, and to avoid trouble Viceroy Wei Kuang-tne and his men are now ordered from the far of the Empire—Tyauelator un NTS north-west tothe far south: weare limit
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