It is reported from Peking that Vu Chéog-k®, recently promoted from the Taotaiship of the Yuchiang Intendancy of Kuangsi province to be Provincial Judge of the same, will soon be promoted again, this time to the North as Provincial Treasurer of Chihli, This official was a Censor in Peking during the Boxer émoute of 1900, and gained notoriety there as a strong supporter of the policy of expelling " Western Barbariens" into the sea "from whence they had come." As such he gained the friendship and patronage of the Boxer leaders, the ex-Prince Tuan and Kang Yi and to such an extent that he is given the credit in mandarin circles of having been entrusted by his two patrons with the drawing up in July of that year of the forged Imperial edicts, ordering missionaries to be driven out of the country, commanding the massacre of all foreigners throughout the Empire end such like sanguinary edicts, When the Boxer movement collapsed and punishments wers being dealt out by the Refugee Court at Hsian, under coercion of the Allies, Ya Chéngfound the atmosphere of Peking unconducive to his health and went into the seclusion of his village-home in the Honan highlands. So well did he cover
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