A well-known Chinese official lately arrived from Peking, who had stuck to his post from the beginning of the Boxer disturbances in the capital until the other day, gives the following reminiscences to a representative of the " Supao," which we translate below. He stated—I well remember the 2nd of June last year, for I read a letter from the lite Viceroy Yit Lu of Tientsin which arrived at the Tsungli Yamen that day, strongly advocating the sending of the troops of the Late General Nieki and General Ma Yii-kun to suppress the Boxers who were then overrunning, Chibli province and threatening to get out of hand, The late Viceroy also suggested. the alternative that if suppression by forcible measure was not possible, the Central Government should issue orders to form the Boxer bands into or-guised battalions under the command of Government officials, "This was the only way," concluded Yi Lu, to prevent-anarchy iv Chihli and in Shavtung, the home of the Boxers."—On the 6th of June (1°00) the late Chao Shu-chiao returned from Chochou, whither he had been sent by the Empress Dowager to investigate the situation and report upon the Boxers, Chao Shu-chiao asked for an audience of the Empress Dowager immediately on his return to Peking and gave it us his opinion that "the Boxers were not to be depended upon." This seemed to influence the Empress Dowager somewhat and she showed much irresolation; when suddenly the notorious Kang Yi (now supposed to be dead), who had also been sent 4s a colleague of Chao Shu-ch ino to report on the Boxer also returned to Peking very early the next morning (7th June) and immediately proceeded to the Palace tu give his report to the Empress Dowager, which was a strong advocacy for the Imperial troops to combine with the Boxers, "who numbered over a million men of fin gard prowess, before whom the hated foreigners would flee like chaff before the wind." There was no coercion at all exercised on the Empress Dowager, who was just as enthu-sins tic by that ti Prince Tuan and Kang Yi in deciding for "war to the knife" against the ' barbarians of the West." Chao Shu-ch*iao finding himself studing alone in the midst of his rexctionary coll agues, of course went with the tide, as did also Vicerny Yi Lu at Tientsin, who was itmmeditely informed by wire of the Empress Dowager's irrevoowble step.—With reference to the imprisonment of the Sub-Chancellor of the Grand Secretariat Huang Sve-yang, a member of the Reform Party about that rime by order of Prince Chuang, Prince Tuan's second in command ut the now authorised Boxer Anny, he had ineurced the hatred of the Boxers by viving the subject "Suppress all pernicious doctrin: s" to number of candidates for the licentiate agree who were being examined at the time by Humg Sze-yung. For this "audacious" opposition to the Boxers, Huang Szsyuny was imprisoned in the Board' of Punishments and sentenced to decapitation at the first convenient moment."—When Prince Tuan fled from Peking just Lefore the fall of the city he took his princess and family with him in his flight ant they are now, according to their ow. letters to members of thole family still remaining in Teking, "quite comfortably situated outside the city of Ninghsis, Kansu provinee.'—Kung Yi's only sou is still living with Ho Nai-ying, she still boasts of having been " the most intimate friend of ' Kang Yi, the Patriot.'
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