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Peking, 13th January.
(1) Decree issued by command of the Empress Dowager ordering the Viceroys and Governors of provines to exert themselves in protecting missionaries throughout the empire and to put down with the strong hand all riots and disturbances made' by desperadoes and bandits, ete.
Note ove is the usual ordinary decree, anil is a copy of similar decrees issued' time and again in former times. The decree winds up as usual with the phrase that the document has been issued for the sike of "keeping at peace with foreign natio: vhich may be added, as it indeed has the meaning, that although the government sues such adhere this does not prove it approves of imissionarics, ete—Tra for.
(2) Decree commanding Hsit Ying-kuei, ieeroy of Min-che, to compel Tan Chi, Literary Chancellor of Fuiea, to give up certain sums of money he had collected for a charity funid in the prefectures of Chruanchou and Chanchou of said province, and hand sane to the Famine Fund of Fikien and Chikiang provinces. The said Literary Chancellor is also hereby cashiered.
More Box-r Sympathisers.
8. Decree commanding that Ho Nai-y President of the Court of Censors; P'n; Tsing-li, Reader of the Hanlin Academy Wang Lung.wen, Hanlin Compiler; Lien Wen-chung, prefect of Kanchou, Kiangsi; and Tstng Lien, expectant prefect of Shensi, be cashiered and dismissed for ever from the public service, for being partisans and sympathisers of the Princes and high Ministers of the Court who instigated the Boxers in their rebellion
Taotai of the rarer) n cabeuin of anes: 0 desi peta (sic) in 1:00, thereby' bringing the Empire (4) Hui Sen (Manchu) is appointed (5) Shan Chi, Prince of Ssu, Ist Order, is appointed a Minister of the Presence.
(G) Decree rewarding some and cashier ing others amongst the military officers of Chekiang province at the instance of Hsii Ying-kuei, Viceroy of Min-Che.
(Addendum.)
Peking, 13th January.
Shih Tu, Prince of Li, Ist Order, is appointed Superintendent-in-chief of the rungho Palace.
Peking, ith January. laicelor of Bape.
(1) Hu Ting-yi is appointed Literary
Chancellor of Fukiew.
Chin Sui-chang is appointed Lite:
Note Chin Sui-chang is a native of Shanghai and he is either the first or second of within the last tt I 4 Aires century and a-half.
Hanlin rank that Shanghai can Peking, 18th January, 4 p.m. (1) Chen Shu-fan, a Chihli expectant Taotai with the brevet 8rd rank button, by granted the brevet 2nd rank and his name is to be recorded in Council books for future ment.
Of the Tavtai and _prefects who had in, the unattached expectant Taotai Liu Sheng-yun is to have his name recorded in the Grand council ernment, and the Chi to said province and await appointment.
(3) Decree stating that the Emperor will Qin person on the 2:
ample of the Most High to pray for feuitiul harvests, and appointing Prince Chun and other Princes and Dukes of the} Imperial House to sacrifice at other Imperial temples for the same purpose.
Peking, 19th January, 4.40 p.m. Another Addition to Viceroy Yuan's Duties.
(1) Yuan Shik-kai, acting Viceroy of d val ili, ete., ete.. is appointed Pri Adviser of the Chéngwu Ch'u—Council on Governmental Affai (2) An edict of the Empress Dowager commands the Emperor, Princes, Dukes, nobles, high Ministers and officials nected with the Ministers" to pay their obeisances to her on Chinese New Year's Day (Sth February next) in the Huang Chi Throne-hall—Throne-hall of the Summit of Imperial Excellence."
(8) Another edict of the Empress Dowager approving of the forms of cere-many to be observed on Chinese New Year's Day as suggested by the Board of Rites, but commanding the stopping of all banquets and festivities in the Palaces. Princesses, Duchesses, and wives of high Ministers living outside the Palace Precincts are excused from attending at Court.
ay par their obeisances on New Year's Peking, 20th January, 1992.
Murder of a French Priest and Convert in Kuangtung.
We have received a telegram from Tao Mu, Viceroy of the Two Kuang, reporting as followin; "The sub-prefect of Nanhsiungchou, Kuangtung province, telegraphs stating that a French priest K' had called on him and personally reported that a priest, named Ju, residing in the village of Mashih-hsii, in the district of Shihhsinghsien, had been. mysteriously murdered in' that' place by some one, and also a native convert. Further, that the murderer or murderers had not been arrested up to that time. The memorialist at once telegraphed to the said sub-prefect commanding him to start immediately with the said French priest _K% to the scene of the murder to investigate matters. With reference to the above, in any case where life has been taken or lost the duty of the local official is to investigate matters on the spot and immediately report to his superior officers. How much more serious then does the affair become where international relations are involved. The magistrate of Shih-hsing hsien failed to do so and has therefore been guilty of culpable negligence. We hereby command the said magistrate to be removed from office and handed to the Board for determination of an adequate penalty, while on the other hand, he is to arrest the murderer, or murderers within a 6th January.
Hsi Liang, the Manchi Boxer sympathise, who was the notorious Yii Hsien's successor as Governor of Shansi_ in 1900, and then asked to be transferred "anywhere" when he heard of the German victory at Kukuan, the hill pass leading from' the Shanst borders into Chihli, and a possible march vious. German troops, is no or of Honan, the substantive Governor Sung Shou, another Manchu, having been ordered to accompany the' Empress Dowager to Peking. According toa Kaifeng dispatch Hsi Liang is anxious now to pose fas a patron of reform measures in Honan—"*bacause the Kmpress Dowager wants the world to believe that she anxious to inaugurate reform' in the empire, it being the present policy of the rulers thereof to assume a friendly front towards foreign nations at large." One of the first actions of Hsi Liang was therefore to appoint the Taot.i Hu Siang-lin (the eldest son of H.E, Hu Yii-fen, Vice-Director-General of Railways, within and ithout Shanhaikuan, or the Enstern terminus of the Great Wall) to take charge of the scheme of establishing schools of Western learning in Kaifeng. This looks all very encouraging—on paper—but the rub is there is no ready money to bring about the new measure; but if reform is still allowed to flourish another two years or s0 one may sco such schools inaugurated by that time.
Another Boxer Sympathiser, in the person of Ch'tn K'uei-lung—a special {wcourite, by the way, of Tu Chtuan-lin, ex-Prince Tuan, and Kang Yi—who has been appointed by the Empress Dowayer Director-General of Grain Transport and the Grand Canal, in succession to En Shou, promoted Governorof Kiangsu, is expected to arrive at Tsingkiangpu, on the Grand Canal, to-day to take up his new post. Chin Kuei-lung whilst Governor of Peking in the latter part of 1900, and before that during the Boxer regime in that city, was an active supporter of ex-Prince Tuan and his Boxers, and it isa matter for surprise how he has escaped the notice of the Foreign Ministers.
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