It is reported from H-ian that the members of the Reactionist Party there have been working hard to get the Empress Dowager to issue a decree in th Emperor's name commanding the stoppage throughout the Empire of all sorts of literary and. military examinations for degrees for the space of five years. The Emperor's name must he necessarily ward in this connection as it is felt, and rightly, that if the Empress Dowager's nave is used the suspicions of the Powers will be atoured and the devree at once opposed by them. The obj-ct of stopping all the competitions is to put th" people of the whole Emyire on an equal basis and thus the aim of the Foreign Powers to. punish those provinces and cities which had been guilty of having had riots and antimissionary disturbances lust year by prohibiting their inhabitants from the privilege of literary competitions fur five yours, will then be defeated,
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