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“...to mend their ways, and
means taken to remove the pressure bur-
dening honest traders and people just now.
14th January.
IMPERIAL DECREES.
(1) By extra grace of the Empres
Dowager, Liu Shu-tang, Governor of Che-
kiang, is hereby granted the privilege of
riding in the Palace barges in the lakes
within the Precincts of the Western Palace-
gates.
(2) Teng Ting-chung is appointed Lieu-
tenant-Colonel of the garrison at Tso-
chiang, Kuangsi, and Shang Te-k(uei,
Major commanding the Liang wan battalion
in Szechuan.
15th January.
IMPERIAL DECREES.
(1) Li Tiao-yang is appointed Police
Censor of the Western City of Peking.
(2) Appointing some fifty officials to the
Metropolitan and Provincial Administra-
tions. r
16th January.
No papers of interest.
17th January.
IMPERIAL DECREES.
(1) Wang Fu-hsiang is appointed Pre-
sident of the Court of Revision,...”
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“...standards in such great
numbers that when the military officers
actually arrived they were outmatchde
and outnumbered at every point. These
officers were, therefore, guilty of neglect
and cowardice and it was partly through
them that the rebellion was permitted to
spread so rapidly and disastrously. The said
Governor, therefore, prays that the follow-
ing officers be punished, viz:Chiang Hsi-
kuei, Lieutenant-Colonel in charge of
the Yulin garrison ; Ho Yuen-feng, Colonel
Commandant of the Lungchou battalion;
and Liu Te-sheng, Major commanding the
Nanning garrison. We hereby command
that the three officers named above be
forthwith cashiered and dismissed the
service as a warning to others.
5th February.
No papers of interest.
6fch February.
IMPERIAL DECREE. '
I, the Empress Dowager Tze-hsi-tuan-
yu, etc.hereby order that the following
high officials be restored their former
ranks and titles which had previously been
taken away from them : E-k6-tang-a, Tar-
tar General of Kengtien, to be restored...”
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“...shown.
11th April.
No papers of interest.
12th April.
IMPERIAL DECREES.
(1) Hua Chin-shou is appointed a sub-
Chancellor of the Grand Secretariat with
the brevet rank of a Vice-President of the
Board of Rites.
(2) Yang Chieh-san is appointed Groom
of the Imperial Library.
13th April.
IMPERIAL DECREE.
Tfcao Mu, Viceroy of the Shen-Kan pro-
vinces, denounces Yii Tung-kao, Colonel,
commanding the middle battalion of the
Hsuenvzei Brigade of Kansu, on the charge
of lack of discipline and organisation.
When Chang Chun, Provincial Com-
nuvnder-in-Chief of Kansu, inspected the
battalion he found that not only were the
men ill-drilled but most of the members of
that corps were in a state either of physical
disability or tuo antiquated tu be of any
use in times of emergency. The said
General, at the time, brought the matter to
the notice of the accused Colonel who,
instead of being ashamed and setting at
once to work to remedy matters, ignored
his instructions and kept on as usual.
This kind...”
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