The Archive · 1900

Discord at Hsian

A Heian dispatch received here yesterday states that H. I. M. Kuang Hsiiis still bent upon return-ing to Peking, while, on the other hand, the Empress Duwager is just as determined that there shall be no exodus of the Comt from Heian. The other day a member of the Grand Council wie happened to broxch the subj-ct, was startled out of his wits at hearing the loud voice of the Empress Dowager re him and threatening to offer personal vi dare to_ sug. hor or the Emperor.

reporied that she also said at the time that a person can only die once; and that her death wou'd occur at the mome when anyone should dare to repeat th ssu-gestion of the Comt leaving Heian, while the fte of the one king such would terrible one. Lo ud relatives in the South are therefore warned not to go to Hsian,

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