So far as the Emperor Kwang Hsu and the Empress Dowager are concerned, the tragic course of events in Peking came to an end on June 24. On that date, according to an officially certified statement, made by two Manchus who arrived yesterday, Prince Tuan presented himself at the palace in the Imperial City, in which the Empress Dowager had confined the Emperor, and in which she had herself been placed by Prince Twan's order, and offered them the alternative of poison vt sword. within the' hour.
The Emperor selected the drug and died
by poison but she appears to have maintained The Emperor Dowager also elected to. die her craftiness to the last and to have only swallowed a portion of the dose.
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is still uncertain whether the Empress Dowager succumbed to the same treatment.
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