Peking, 15th August.
The departure of Their Excellencies Tsai Tsuo,''uan Fang, Tai Hung-tze, and Hsu Shi-chang has been postponed until early September.
The Empress Dowager is greatly agitated regarding the dispatch of the above-named high officials, and it is said that some secret letters are to be taken by the officials to one or two of the Powers.
E. Tsai Tsuo and 'Tai Hung-tze are to be sent to' Japan, while the others are "to go to Europe and America, but will visit Japan first en rowte.—Speoial telegram:
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