Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1901-02-13 | Page 2 | Kwang Hsu Wants Officials Given Privilege of Suicide

KWANG HSU WANTS OFFICIALS OFFICIAL GIVEN I EN PR VILE aF r Feb and LI La I Hung Hun Chang ChILD have received a iT long Jong ng din dis dispatch patch from the court which they have i inot not disclosed to the tM foreign envoys envoy It Itis ItIs ItIn is In understood lInder tood in addition to the recent re ent celebrated reform decree an account t of how Emperor Kwang Su has sent a choice of of suicide to all those named for punishment by the envoys closing clo ln with the inquiry whether Prince Ching and LI Hung HunS Chang think the envoys will be satis satisfied tied fled It is understood that the Chinese plenipotentiaries in their reply to the court said the foreign envoys could not object strongly to an accomplished fact but that they would woud in m insist insist stet upon sentence of or execution be 00 beIng being ing I published throughout the empire and ad possibly po upon the heads of those tho e condemned bug beg exhibited at various points point i It is seriously doubted in Chinese circles here that General Tung T ng Fuh FUR 1 I Slang will w l agree to o commit suicide The army arpy worships him He has alo absolute lute Jute control of the and andis andIs is believed to be one himself He re refused refused refused fused to allow now the disbandment of i imen men ami nad a the emperor ordered hint him far from the court To attempt his exe execution I cution cuti n it is thought in Chinese circles might mean civil war