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MARINE BRANCH.

THE EMPRESS DOWAGEN'S EDICTS.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13TH, 1904,

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reasous will the Emperor, whoso degradation after the coup this occasion. Whatever, therefore, it was to change her mind, on d'élut was so much talked of, that just before the intention of the officials to offer her on her recently disclosed the facts of his case and the birthday, she now commands to be used for the betterment of the condition of the people at large, and especially of those in the districts in charge of the individuals concerned. Official documents in China, either thoso emanating from the Thrane itself or from the lowest villago mandarin, are prone to be filled with of the native press and many of the highest similar high-sounding sentiments, but the editors officials believe that in this instance they ara for an explanation of these strange changes. meant. Consequently, they are searching about

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at the time to have incurred the great enmity 1121 of the Empress Dewager, has experienced her clemency, having been released from the prison of the Board of War,

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