Wo understand that at the request of the Empress-Dowager each of the principal provinces of the Empire has had contribute a certain amount towards the expenses of the five High Commissioners abroad, on the ground that as the whole Empire will benefit by the mission abroad it is but right that each province should contribute a certain quota towards its expenses. In view of the Imperial commands. Viceross Yuan Shih-kai, Chang Chih-tung and Chou Fo, representing the provinces of Chibli, Hunan and Hupeh, and the Liangkiang (Kiangsu, Kiangsi_ and Anhui) have contributed Tls. 100,000 each, and we believe Viceroy Tsen Chtunhsuan, Tls. 60,000 on behale of the Two Kuang provinees. It is not known how much the provinces of Szechuan, Shantung, Shansi, Honan, and Min-Che (Fu-Kuen and Chékinng) have promised: to contribute, but we understand that the sum of at least Tls. 800,000 is required, and that the Board of Revenue will have make up the amount that may fa") short of that sum. 1
4th October.
A Special Proclamation has been issued in Peking by H. E. Hu Yiifén, Director General of. Northern Railways, offering a reward of thirty thousand dollars for the capture of the perpetrator of the bomb outrage at the Machiapu Railway Terminus, on Sunday the 26th of September last; a reward of twenty thousand dollars for any of his accomplices, or fellow conspirators, and ten thousand dollars reward to the person, or persons, who shall give information leading to the arrest and conviction of the perpetrator or perpetrators of the bomb outrage. We also understand that Viceroy Yuan Shih-K'ai has promised a reward of twenty' thousand taels for the arrest of the chief perpetrator of the outrage, while the Manager of the Peking-Tientsin Railway has offered on his part the sum of two thousand dollars reward for the arrest of the same person or persons.
The Sufferers from the Bomb Outrage, According to a Peking lotter there were two special carriages at the railway terminus at Machiap'u prepared to take the five High Commissioners to Piontsin on Sunday morning, the 24th of September last. Their Excellencies Duke 'Tsai Tsth, Shao Ying, and Hsu Shi! ch'ang were in one car, amd Tuan Fang and Tai Hung-tze in' the other. The bomb appowrs to have exploded in the carriage containing the Dul When the panic which followed the explosion had somewhat subsided a man, in the garments of a servitor, was found lying dend in the carriage with half his face blown off. This mat is suspected to have been the actual perpetrator of the outrage. Further inspection showed that HE. Shao Ying's riding-jacket was aflame, while ho had been strack on ti back of his head by a fragment from the bomb. This official's injuries wore t most 8 Duke Tsai Tsth had his yellow riding-jacket liberally splashed with the blood of the unknown man, lying dead in the carriage, while his Highuess's right ey brow was slightly cut, but his neck had a severer wound. LO. Hew Shik-ch'ang, although unscathed, seer ed stupified by the explosion, while BLE. Wu Ting-fang who, with several other Ministers of the Great Boards, had come to see the party off and was standing nour the door of the carriage at the time of the explosion, was struck on the ear—fortunately, a slight wound. Taotai Yuan Yun-t'ai (eldest son of Viceroy Yuan Shih-kuni) who forms one of the staff of the High Commissioners, -and who happened to be near by at the time, suffered some injuries on the face and cit. Mr. Sa Yin-t'u, also a member of the High Commissioner's staff, was particularly unfortunate. Of two' sons who had gone to the railway station to see their father off one succumbed to his injuries while the other is severely, though not dangerously, wounded. Lien K'ai, a brother-in-law of Mr. Sa" Yin-t'u, was also killed while the latter's cousin, '2 Lien, was dangerously injured ani is not expected to live. An orderly 5th grade, on the staff of the Mission was also dangerously wounded, while four students of the Shihyi Academy body of whom had turned out to speed away the High Commissioners were also wounded, as well as a Censor, named Ts'ai, and a Secretary of one of the Great Boards, Besides those enumorated above, two artisans belonging to the railway staff and three others, names unknown tothe writer of this dispatch, and little child, were also injured. As for those who were slightly cut by fragments of glass belonging-to the railway.carringo scattered by the explosion, their number must have mounteli up to several tens, for there was quite a largo crowd nour the car at the time of the explosion, 5th October.
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