The Archive · 1903

Special Flags for the Empress

Dowager.

Peking are at embroidering the usual dragons on two magnificent so of Imperial yellow—the "Imperial yellow " colour in' Chinese being usually defined as the "orange red the yolk of a goose egy." These Tm perial flags are to be a little over thirty two fect in length and are to be hoisted wherever the Empress Dowager may be making a stay.

Pekin: razer, ix he middle of next month (March) and is expected to pleted and ready for traffic next November, in time for the Empress agers seventieth birthday The m for the construction of ne this short railway—ten miles—ix to be defrayed by "voluntary" contributions by the Princes, Dukes, Nobles, and high Ministers at Court.

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