Ap been issued, with instruct ler to be observed by the offici reception of the Emperor and the Empress Dowager. The Chine: ud Chiang the troops, meet th ins as soon as at Lukouchi'an and From Machiap'u, the old rail-to the palace, the Manchu guard of honour. The Manchu nobility are to take their posi side the Yungting Gate, which is the southern yate of the Chinese city, and between the Temple of Heaven and the Temple of Agriculture. Nearer the entrance to the Tartar city, on either side of the main thoroughfare, there is to be another Manchu guard, and the gentry and lesser officials. All these from Lukouchi'ao to the alice Gate are el down. The I be the most many years. There is no arrangement made for foreigners, neither could it very well be made, owing to the ceremonies to be required.
Renewed Exclusiveness, As a part of the exclusiveness and sacredness of the Imperial presence, the court just between the Chi'en Men' and the entrance to the Imperial quarters, at the west end of Legation Street, is now closed to all traffic, even that of foot-passengers. The old regulations for exclude ing the public are now fully re-enforced. People are even forbidden from going on foot across the North Gate of the palaces from east to west, such as was allowed in the early eighties. The Chinese, as much as foreigners, feel the inconvenience of the regulations. One example may be given.
juring the foreign occupation the Germans made an opening in the South wall of the Imperial City to connect with a road that runs north between the old Palaces, properly called Forbidden City, and the new Summer Palace of the Empress Dowager. Now, one living outside that Imperial city wall,'and wishing to visit a friend inside, must go west and north two miles to the West Gate of the Imperial city, then east and north and east again two miles to near the North Gate of the Imperial city, then south and west and south again some three miles to his friend s house. The trouble of passing from the east side of the city to the west is almost equally great.
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