IMPERIAL DECREES, By telegraph from Peking. Specially translated for the North-China Daily News."
February 8.
(1) Shih Kan is appointed Taotai of the Chang-Té-Wei-Huai Intendancy of Honan province.
(2) The post of Prefect of Kaiféngfa being s very important one, the Governor of Honan is commanded to select from amongst all the substantive prefects of that province the man best fitted for the said post and to the post vacated by the officer of his choice: to Tso Fu-tung.
(3) Li. Cheo-chen is appointed Prefect of Juninfo, Honan province.
February 9.
Decree, in response to memorial from Feng Ju-k'nei, Governor of Chekiang, asking for special recognition by the Throne for the ex-Grand Secretary, Wang Wen-shao, who had resigned his post last year on account of old age, and now, at the age of ninety, sees this year another cycle completed since his taking the degrees of Master of Arts and Doctor of Literature (Chiijén and Chinshih). The brevet rank of a Senior Guardian of the Heir Apparent is accordingly bestowed upon the nonagenarian, February 10.
(1) Chang Sing-ping is appointed Grain-Intendant of Fukien province.
(2) Decroe commanding Viceroy Sung Shan to select from all the substantive prefects of Fukien province the man best fitted to be prefect of Foochow, and appointing Chih Ch'a to the prefecture vacated by that Viceroy's It is reported in Chinese official circles that owing to s severe denunciatory memorial by censors to the Throne charging H.E. Hsi Shihch'aog, Viceroy of Manchuria, with lamentable ignorance in dealing with foreign affairs in that Viceroyalty, the Central Government will recall the Viceroy to Peking and send Grand Secretary Lu Ch'uan-lin to Mukden in his place. It may be stated that Viceroy Hsii Shih-ch'ang has been especially unfortunate since his appointment to Mancharia, having been denounced by censors no less than nine separate times.
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