The attention of the Empr Dowager was first drawn to this tree by a certain Manchu official of her Court, Ying Nien by name. Trading on his mistress's superstitious disposition, he tried to ingratiate himself with her by telling; tree was the real direct succession to the throne had not remained in her family. According to the soothsayers, so he told her, this ginko tree was draining away from her family all the Feng-shui (good luck) into the Chun branch of the Manchu house. To put an end to that, she ought to cut down the tree, when the succession would revert once more to her own branch.
This suggestion made such a deep impression on the superstitious mind of the old lady that she could never get the tree out of her head again.
Her heart was set on cutting it down. But as it would be scarcely decent if she herself were to suggest desecrating her brother-in-law's tomb in this way, she made certain Court officials approach the Emperor on-the subject. At the very mention of such sacrilege the Emperor flew into a violent rage. "Don't any of you dare to touch that tree " he cried, "I'd die rather than give my permission,"
And he even ventured 10 reproach his aunt herself for harbouring such intentions. For months the tree remained a subject of constant dispute between them. The more obstinate ihe Emperor showed himself, the her anxiety to have the tree cut down. ally she lost patience and took matters into her own hand Tur Report of the Fire Brigade of the French Municipality for January shows that the total number of calls to fires received were 32, which included two false alarms, The Special ambulance service dealt with 19 persons suffering from asphyxation, 17 recovered, 1 woman wa found dead on the arrival of the balance and the body of one man was found on a vacant plot. Ambulances conveyed 8: persons to the various hospitals in the Concession the month porters, lo-boys—for whom an annual licence was required until last April when the removal of the imposition was announced by the cellor of the Exchequet in his Budge speech tax, it was called.
No tax is popular, but
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