27th September.
Wo have received a joint memorial from Cho -Hu-pu, Tartar General of Chengtu, and Hsi Liang, Viceroy of Szechuan, reporting the successful results of the punitive expedition sent by the joint memorialists into P'atang, Anterior Tibet, to avenge the doatl of Feng Chenan, As Twperial Resident-designate of Tibet, who with his party was murdered by the P'atung Tibetans last spring whilst passing thorough the latters' country. The memorial ther report that General Ma W i, who commanded the expedition, succeeded in capturing the Lamas chiefly guilty sovordingly decapitated for their crimes. of the murders above-noted and they were In reward for the services rendered by General Ma Wei-chi we hereby bestow upon him the brevet button of the premia: military rank (tou-pin-ting-tai) and the Imperial Yellow Riding Jacket, and as regards Chao Erh-feng, Tnotai of the Chienchang Intendancy of Szechuan province, who also commanded a brigade during the opera: ions, we hereby command his name to be handed over to the Boar! of Civil Appointments for tre determination of " special reward. Other rewards recommended by the memorialists for bestowal on the subordinate officers' military and civil, connected with th expedition are hereby granted wit exception of the ex-official Oh'ien Hsi-pao, who was only Intely cashiered and disinissed for ever from the public service and who is therefore not to be considered.
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