Peking, February 13.
The Director-General of the Imperial Chinese Customs, Natung, has ed the Throne to authorize establish a school for the trait ing of Custom officials. The Throne has issued an edict, complying with this made Tequest.
Hongkong February, 14.
With regard to the statement of the Tokio "Nichi Nichi" that the arms and ammunition found on board the steamer Taten Maru, which was seized Fes 211908
Peking, February 16.
Ata recent meeting of the Chi chicha (Grand Council), at which th Empress Dowager was present, the members again discussed the question of the introduction of a constitation.
The Empress Dowager declared on this occasion that it was utterly impossible to take within the next few years any measures which would bring about a practical solution of this question.
February 17.
February 12.
German's 10,000 ton battleship Ersatz Bayern is ready for Isunching at Wilhelmshaven.
Dom Miguel of Braganza has quitted Italy where, after the assassinations in Lisbon, he was watched by the police.
The French orniser Jeanne dare with the French squadron in Morocco burst her main steam pipe near Tangier The accident scalded four of her crew to death.—The Kobe Herald."
General Tong Fa-hsiang, who was the bead of the Boxer movement in 1900, and who was banished after that insurrection to Ninghis, on the border of the Provines of Kansah and Mongolia, has died in Lanchoufa, the Capital of Kansah. As Tung Fa-hsiang does not leave any sons, the Government intends to confiscate his estates.
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