elb
anima tak ni? bez ON TWO TEAMW
420
}
Kuonent avoir bu
ntuzity s od 7-41* of soft begubri I vIm
BUT I Invicta ad avote
# aisutne bar etuler
I ran pisteva
1} !
líash and 4
1,50+
10
od AutoDA
*
1
un undanen ANG aw vored a fore
(36
using a foreign language, that I venture to enclose re-
ports of them taken from the Peking Daily News.
The audience with the Prince Regent was of the usual
formal description; His Imperial Highness' remarks being
of the most banal nature and consisting of inquiries as
to Sir Prederick's health, his journey and the length
of his stay in Peking, but there was one curious and
significant departure from the previous ceremonial in
that we were all reated and that the Prince Regent shook
hands with us. I was pleased to be able to give Sir Frede-
rick and Lady Lugard an opportunity of meeting the Prince
Regent's brother, Prince Toai Tao, and Princess Tsai
Tao at a emall dinner at my house. To those who have
known China longest, the appearance of an Imperial Prince
of Prince Teal Tao's rank, in simple military uniform,
accompanied by his wife, at a dinner in a foreign Lega-
tion, with Ruropean gentlemen and ladies but no other
Chinese present, will be indicative of the great revolu-
tion in social matters that is going on in both Manchu
and Chinese circles in Peking.
1
The Wai Wu Pu arranged that the Summer and Winter
Palaces should be specially opened for Sir Frederick Lugard
and