nearly three years ago, the question of making the city of Nanning the provincial Capital of Kuangsi, instead of the present city of Kueilin, was strongly recommended to the Throte by that Viceroy, owing to exposed position of the last-named city, situated as it is on plain. suggestion was vetoed through the influence of interested persons Peking. A dispatch from the Capital now states that the suggestion has again been revived, with better chance of success, by H. E. Chang Ming-chi, Governor of Kuangsi, whose arguments in regard to the strategic importance of Nanning has so influenced the Empress Dowager that in all pro-ability her Majesty may sanction the recommendation.
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