Peking, Feb, 2.
Mandates issued to-day appoint General Chang Tso-chang_ Field-'Marshal; abolish the posts of Tupan and ce-director of the Huai River!
Conservancy; and also approve of the memorial requesting the suspen-_ sion of the Peking Academy of Fine Arts—Reuter's Pacific Service.
Tu following short leader is taken from the "New York World," com-[menting on dispatches coneening the executions recently held at Kalgan: "There la something grotesquely horrible in the news from China that 1,554 Chinese soldiers have been stood in Tine and shot down by firinar lequads. This is not organized killing fon the scale of war, but-it is perhaps the greatest military execution modern history, revolting to minds accustomed to think as ours
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