6th November.
The Health of Grand Secretary Yung Lu.
As will, perhaps, be remembered the Grand Secretary" Yung Lu has not been in very good health. It now transpires that His Excellency's ailment is a serious swelling of the lower extremities, and to such an extent has this developed lately that it is stated he has handed a memorial to the Empress Dowager asking permission to be allowed to resign his many posts in order to enable him to devote all his time to the restoration of his health. The Empress Dowager, however, wrote 2 Rescript telling Yung Lu to attend Court just as often-as it should suit his convenience without first going through the formality of asking for sick leave, and also told him that under the circumstances it was unnecessary to resign his various posts.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.