Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1895-03-06 | Page 2 | Li Hung Chang

II HUNG CHANG i is aow SAID HE HAS BECJ SUe GSSli Lute Ovcncc ot the Yellow Jacket and rcncoclc Feather Seems to Bo I Ascending the Ladder ot TJipl I 7JH1CJ I 1ondon March Dispatches from Pe II I i kin to the Times which will b published tomorrow confirm previous dispatches outlining the success of Li Hung Chang at the Chinese capital They say that after tedious telegraphing through the United States minister Mr Charles Den by the tex of LI Huns Changs creden rials a peace envoy have been accepted by apan L Hung Chang was given audience by the dowager empress or China yesterday In the presence of the privy council who heartily supported the mission upon which the viceroy Is engaged en-gaged Prince Kung president of the Chinese foreign office and uncle of the present emperor of China silenced al opposition by presenting papers showing that the failure of the Chinese to repuls the Japanese was due to the backward policy for which they themselves were to blame and exonerating Li Bung Chang I T h spoke frankly about the condition f of the empire The power of L Hung Chang to nego i tiate for peace are believed to be complete com-plete and the actual commission being feigned he left Pekln today for Tien Tsln where the Japanese reQuIre him to transship trans-ship for Hiroshima Mr John W Foster the American at vlser of the Chinese will join the viceroy