The Archive · 1903

A Large Following

A Canton dispatch to hand states that HE. stu Ch'un-hsien, the new Viceroy of the Two Kuang provinces, brought with him from the North no less than forty-nine ollicials of civil rank and one hundred and ten of military rank. This is taken people at Large in Canton to mean that His Excellency, with his usual shrewdness, has 8 very poor opinion of the dus of officials at present holding appointments about the person of the previous Viceroy and that he before long dismiss a number of them put in their places his owa men.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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