Abolition of Titles" and Cour rt' and Reduction of Imperial Allowances: Emperor Closely Guarded and His Friends Refused Admission to Peking, Nov. 5. pletely surprised when they were he Manchu household were com. Informed that they must. vacate the Imperial Palace by three o'clock this. afternoon, The representatives of the "R public" demanded the Seals and imposed a new agreement Froviding for the abolition of his Biles and court, which have hither-fo been maintained on a restricted Scale, also for the reduction of the Tmperial allowances from. $4,000,000 to, $500,000, a stipulation. being made that 'a certain other sum be
factories in which the Mancha ban for the establishment, erman and other retainers shall be employed.
where he ikes, but the "Republic hing Emperor cee to live:
The agreement says hat the
Mhall. retain ther responsibility of guarding him, Inquiries on this point have elicited the information that he must oside where the "Republic" can exercise safe guardianship over him viauan Tang wanted tov enter" the afternoon the Emperor
Legation Quarter, but he was not allowed to 40 The Manchu Household is tremendowsly upset, needlessly fearing The Emperor has complied with the face of fore Peking, Nov. 6.
'A mandate issued to-day appoints! General Li Lich-chun, Dr. Sun sen's follower, Chief of the General Staff, in sueceasion to General Chang Huai-chin.
Questioned to-day regarding the statement in the local papers to the defect that the Palace coup yesterday nipped in the bud a Monarchist plot, Dr. C. 'T. Wang asserted that the "Government" knew nothing of such plot, and he personally had knowledge of it.
The police this morning placard-_ ed the City with proclamations ex plaining the favourable treatment of the ex-Emperor and the reasons for revising the Palace Agreement, which is identical with that cabled by Reuter's Peking correspondent yesterday, with the addition that the "Republic" undertakes the continued maintenance of the Imperial Tombs, Yesterday's coup is keenly eriticixod in Peking on the grounds that was quite unnecessary to exercise euch a display of force for tervorizing the Manchus, The asser-fiom that in the new Agreement the ex-Emperor is free to live where he Tikes, does not accord with the facts up to the present, for he is still virtually a prisoner, surrounded by numerous guards. He is unable to eave his new residence, to which his tutor, Me. Johnston, is denied Jadmittance-—Reuter's Pacific Ser-
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