The Archive · 1901

IMPERIAL DECREES

SPECIALLY TRANSLATED COR THE NORTH-

ved a memorial from Pei an, © Sub-Chancellor of the Grind xt, denouncing the billying and atrocities of troops in Shensi, round about the city of Hsin, and demanding that all officers and troops guilty theres be shed to the utmost extent of the If these charges are true and ally command Tsen Ch'unsaid provines, to fuyesti.ate them at once, the guilty persons hereby concerned must be forthwith punished according ty law, as a warning to the rest of the army in Shensi and elsewhere. This state of ill discipline and breaking out of the various corps in Shensi must be immediately suppressed by the strong maud, and peace and order restored in the country.

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