A private telegram from Kiaiféng to this port yesterday states that, although the Empress Dowager has given orders, to the Imperial Bodyguard to be prepared'to start for Peking on the lith inst., the Court may not get to the Capital within this Chinese year—which ends on the 7th of February next—but that it will be quite on the cards that the Empress Dowager may make short stops of various lengths en route and a stay of, say, a month at Chéuting, starting from that city by rail to Peking about the 23rd or 24th of Feb-Tuary next year.
This reluctance to return to Peking promptly, has been variously attributed by
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