There was an extraordinary meeting of the Cabinet this forenoon, Marquis Ito and Count Inouye attending—Our own Peking, 12th October.
ELE, Hu Wei-te, Chinese Minister at St. Petersburg, has telegraphed to the Peking Government that Russia has promulgated a constitution in order to restore her national prestige, and with the future object of reattempting expansion in the Far East. China, he says, is now completely isolated and cannot rely even on the Anglo-Japanese Alliance. The Empire must therefore have its own constitution, and endeavour to secure its independence by the unity of its people high and low, defending Russia or any other Power Special itself thus against aggression by
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