It $s, perhaps. pretty well-known. by this time that the most powerful subject of the Dragon Throne just now is the person whom we usually style "the Grand Secretary" Yung Lu. We take the opportunity to translate below the multifarious titles which go to make up this powerful Minister of the Chinese Crown, which when etiquette or occasion demands, are carefully appended in full in official documents to Yung Lu's name by the scribes belonging to his star Expositor of the Ancient Classic: to the Emperor; Senior Guardian of the Reir Apparent; Decorated, with the Double-
The Recent Conspiracy Against nothin but and ce Canton Officials. tempt for t the inter in TOW as contrasted with tae Cemlstr net talon thinks ovtiig ta Gal, tthe exposure by the Govern: waring to eral, vaadaliet ment to the provin of of section the other all the fret feelings into une of CPN iahens of the Triad. allied Powers, has Corto of the recent projected attempt Seely. eM the 4 reaper and lives of the former on Chinese New Year's continuous sire Day. and owing Gy the fuel that during best and most promis F902 no Tess than fourteen revolutionists arrived as well a had been rested by aid of the Hong-n to ob-Jsent to Canton to undergo the last: penalty for conspiring against the {Mancha dynasty, Hongkong is now carefully avoided by those, of the Triad ty, who are "wanted" by the Chi-mainland and! yese officuds.
Tt is now reported that the merey quite a lay xe who were ae! of concerned in the int whose anes have somehow got to the knowledge wot talented young men stu this time cither modern arts and seipnees in Japay the Malay States, or not a few graduates of the Chinese mi-: the Straits Settlen Tf late accounts cal and other young army are to be trusted, there will doubtless be three. tempt before long to capture a the military institutions of the count: seaport in Kuangtung province, by sym-of the Rising Sun to quality: themselves yythis of these in arms against the for high command in. the reorganised Manchu government in Kuangsi and other armies that are being efadually prepared provinces in that vicinity, news of which for them to replace the territorial forces j Will not be so easily. of the old regime. At the present! ported to the eats of the officers moment of writing there are no lew than Kiapress Dowager in the South.
1.166 Chinese stndents—many of high i Chinese literary degree, who would have Chinese Arti: to visit the laughed the suggestion' to scorn a short five or six years ago—in Japan, and by} Exhibition. the end of 1903 this number it ix stated! A Chengtu dispatch states that HE. will be doubled, at the least computation. Tsin Ch'un-hsuan, Viceroy of Szechuan A Nanking dispatch states that Viceroy (who is a great admirer of the Japanese), Chang Chih-tung is the first hich official has specially deputed Mr. Sheng, prefect of to commence the New Chinese Year by Chengtu, to take charge ofa dozen or so sending more young men to Japan. and j first-class Szechuanese artisans and silk this end has given instructions to weavers to go to the Osaka Exhibition to thirty-four of last year's graduates of the view things" and learn how the Japan-Nanking Military Academy to start at an ese weave silk, etc., according to modern early day for Japan in order to "complete! methods. Prefect. Sheng, who has pre-their education." A number of these are! viously visited Japan, will also act as young artillery officers; this arm of the Special Commissioner from Szechuan, and Service being a first hobby of the Viceroy, will give any. assistance that may be re-while military engineering comes me quired by exhibitors from that province.
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