Tt is stated from Li Chay-chun, Provincial Commander-in-Chief of Lower Kisngsn (Sungkiang), who ig also Commandant of the foreign-modelled Corps, ca)'ed the ' Tze-Ch'iang-rhein." formerly stationed at Woosung and now at Kiangyin est-bilched by Taorai Shen Tan-ho in 1898. is to lea that Ca pe—now about 3,000 strong, armed and furnished at all points accortine to the modern system—northwards to Honan "to act as a bodyguard to the returning Court." The ity -f Governer Yuan Shih k'ai's will have been noticed, have already received instruct to go to Honan also for the same pirposa but if anything can be gathered from sinister rumours amongst the more in-
"something in the air" amongst the reactionary advisers of the Empress Dowager which time will soon bring 10 light.
ANOTHER CHANGE OF DATE, The " Sinwénpao" is responsible for the statement that the advisers of the Empress Dowayer have decided to change the date of the Court's d-parture from: Hsian for Peking to the 14th of October next (3rd day of the 9th moon), the delay bring cattsed it is stated by the unprepared state of the roads in Honan and Chihli over which the Court will have to pa-s on the return journey. The report ly also given by the same paper that the notorious Manchu Boxer leader, Kuei Chtun, whom the Foreign Powers wish to get hold of, and who returned t" Heian the other day travelled already half-way w his hest to vilify the and to persuade the Empress wer not to return to Peking at all, in spite of all that the Foreign Powers may promise or do to get the Court to return to Peking. A dispatch to the same paper from the Cupital also states that Li Hung. charg has received a severe censure from the Empress Dowager for consenting to the ruing ut the forts at Taku and Peitang.
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