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Prince Ching, writes the Faking.cor.of this memoir.. Disaster shook the can-$1 per inch... respondent of The Times, he been for fidance of the Throne. On September 21, 2 years the most conspicuous and the most 1804, Prinics Kung was recalled to power, and nominated Co-Director of War Opers- notorious Bgure in China. The story

tion. his life is the story of China for the past twenty-seven years the story of the most

On the death of Prince Kung on May disastrous experience in the history of the 25, 1898, Trines Ching resumed full Empire. From those disasters China is now control of the Foreign Offico. A few weeks omerging chastened and strengthened; her later, on July 1, he signed the Convention future, under new methods of government, by which Waikaisia leased to Greaty

is rich with promise. Whether Constitu Britain for so long a period sa Port tional development can be guided satisfacArthur remained in the occupation of

Rosin."

Events now moved quickly. torily by a decrepit old man, irresolats, wily, corrupt, and invficient, is a question which The coup d'Etat of September, 1893, by which the Emperor was relegated to a may disputed. To create Senate

ton of Sutelage, unrest of 1899, and whose deliberations were marked by a

the summoning to Peking of Tang reasonableness, diguity, and ability worthy Fahsiang's undisciplined hordes were of all praise was a wise step; to elect as followed by the Boxer outbreak of its President an intelligent Prince like 1900, which could have been averted Pa-lun was a laudable act, but then to had there been « less irresolute Minister | rumore the Prince and sabatitate for him at the head of the Taung-li. Famen. Dur * aged Manchu Conservative of the old ing the Bazar rebellion and the siege of school like Shih Hrü was an impolitic act the Legations, Prince Ching remained in condemned by every thoughful man in the Peking. The dispatches addressed to the N°

JOTICE is hereby ziven that the past country. And now the people clamouring beleszeret Lagations signed Prince were subsequently poned EXTRAORDINARY GENE- for a Cabinet are given a Cabinet, which is Ching and others" RAL MEETING of the above-named only the Grand Council under another published." It is impossible to believe him Company will be held at the Hongkong Hotel at 12 Noon on SATURDAY, theme, and Prince Ching, the President of innocent of complicity in this crime against 17th day of Jano, when the following the Grand Council, becomes the first Prires special resolutions will be sulamittod.

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Frient "writ Luge." Foolish are the chanaels guiding the young Prince Hegest to emphase the class distinction of Manchus and draw attention to the in mense preponderance of Imperial claasmon in the higher metropolitan offices., Dia- satisfaction wide and deep is expressed To the counsel of against this folly. Prince Ching, the most trusted of his advisers and the most coreapt of Chinese oficiale, must be attributed this policy of

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PRESIDENT OF THEWATWOFU. grandson being the son of the seventeenth By the terms of the Protocol, the old son of the Earperors an adopted sun Taung-liyanên was reconstructed in secard he was admitted to all the fights and snce with a scheme prepared on babal. of recognition of a true son. He is thus ro- the other Plenipotentiaries by Mr Bockbil garded as of the same generation as the the present American Ambassador at St.

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the Japanese Envoy, now the Foreign In his early years he was not well provided Secretary, Marquis Komum. & new for, and it is recorded that he was glad to Ministry, called the Waiwupo, WAE ncrease his income by giving lessons in created, consisting of a President, two two Vice PEAK TRAMWAY COMPANY, LTD. writing and painting. He is an excellent Assistant. Presidents, and

painter of Chiness landscape, and a masta, Presidents. The poet of President was of handwriting. His rise in the ranks of given to Prince Ching, and to this On April 13. the potrage has been chatinuous. By adop- post he has since clung. ton made & Prince of the Fourth Rank in 1903, on the death of Jang Ln, he rose to 1852, be raised was to the Third Rank in increased power, and was made President 1871, the Second Rank in 1884, the of the Grand Council, the highest post in First Rank in 1994, and on the the Empire. He also succeeded Jung La death of the late Emperor in December, in the lucrative post of Custodian of the 1908, he was admitted to the ranks of Imperial Masonics. He is still Fresident! Hereditary Princess of the First Order.,...

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