The Archive · 1900

A Chinese Letter from the Straits

To the Estitor of the Sin,—Will the Gi the Empress Dowager to rule Eh ever she wishes, there is no unless the Emperor Kuang Hsi is restored instantly. The interview by a representa-tivo of "Hongkong Daily Press" with Li Hung-chang "at Canton, it ix useless to listen what he said as he spoke a lot. of things which were not in favour of the Emperor, nor the Great Powers, but the Empress Dowager only. Li Hung-chang knows very well that if the Great Powers reinstate the Emperor and whom he regards as an enemy, he will have to lose his post and his name may not appear any more from the official function. Li Hung-chang is therefore trying his.best to make peace with the Great Powers in erder to maintain the Emi people dislike him and they may murder him or capture him alive. "The attention of England United States and Japan must be careful concerning the crisis in China regarding Russia France and Germany's movement is obscure and perhaps that Russia has posted her men in Manchuria or behind the wall of Peking together with the Boxers and the Manchu troops there, so France must have been combined with Russia and Germany may stand between them.

Tam, ete., L. Jes Tus. Singapore, 19th Jul,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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