While the Empress-Dowager entertaining the Iulies of the and protesting affection, those Chinamen who. showed themselves friendly to the foreigners during the troubles, and who fought the Boxers, ave having a hard gle to maintain their positions, OF course the ex-Boxers are 100 cowardly to tackle any of those officials who are well known, but men in the country districts who kept their heads and did their duty by the foreigners, are bern quietly removed and replaced by pro-Boxers. Among the sufferers are General Wei, the military official, and also the civil' magistrate "of the 'T'sangchou dis-These men, who did yeoman service in suppressing the "Boxers and protecting the missionaries under their care, have been quietly shelved. They apreate' to Yuan Shih-kai, but he is reported to have said he could do nothing for them a- it took him all his time to keep his own po ition. T believe a me der of the London sion wh works the 'T'sangehou di. wet as made represent at ons to Sir Ernest Satww on their hebulf, snd it is to be hop d that he wil see that justice is done to thes: two men, SHANTUNG,
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