Salt Lake Herald | 1901-02-13 | Page 1 | Kwang Hsu Wants Officials Given Privilege of Suicide

KRNC su SIJ WANTS OFFICIALS OFFICIAL I I GIVEN PRIVILEGE E iB 11 Fab b 12 Prince Ching and LI Ll Hung Iun have received ft a long dis ds dispatch patch from the lIe court which they have not sut Jl t ed to the t e foreign envoys It ItIs to Js understood in addition to the recent recen celebrated reform decree an R account of how now Emperor Em eror Kwang Su Sub j has sent a choice of methods of or suicide to all allS S those tho e named for punishment by the envoys closing with the inquiry whether Prince Ching and LI Hug Hung Chang think the envoys will be satis sata fled tied It is understood that the Chinese plenipotentiaries in their reply to the court said the foreign envoys could couk not Dot object strongly to an accomplished fact but that they would probably in insist int slat t upon the sentence of execution be being leg ing published pu throughout the empire and possibly J liSl ly upon the heads of those condemned being exhibited at various points I Ii i i It is Iii seriously doubted in inI Chinese I circles here that General Tung Full Fuli I Slang will wUl agree to commit suicide The Themy army worships him He has absolute absolute lute Jute control of the and andis andi andIs is i believed to be one himself He re refused refused refused fused to allow the disbandment of men and the emperor ordered him far from the court To attempt t his hie hi exe ee execution cution it is thought ht in Chinese circles s might mean civil chU war ar