The French Consul-General here, the Count do Bezaure, received a telegram yesterday from FHLB. Yuan Shih-kai, Governor of Shantung, stating Kans General Tung Bacsiang was the virtual Dictator at Peking, aud_ that was preparing a decree orde the extermi: Chinese otticials here have very anxious that the Consular Body should understand that the government of China has been superseded by the Boxers, the fact being that most of the Manchu Princes and their adherents, rheic Generals and their troops, are members of the Boxer Society. It'is feared that these official statements are intended to prepare the way for the terrible story that is wi wherever men meet to discuss the situation, but is not yet openly told.
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