Nov. 22.
Our Peking correspondent relates to-day an amazing tale of intrigue and sordid self-interest beneath the still more amazing attack on Mr. Lo Wen-kan, ranging from a. scramble for the salt fields of Shantung to the much-desired elevation -of General Tsao Kun to the Presidency. Inasmuch as Mr. Lo has declined to be let out of gaol, on the tacit, assumption, no doubt, that he says no more about it, and insists on~ being brought to trial in. order publicly to. prove his innocence,, the affair is, properly speaking,
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