Show IMPERIAL EDICT FORGED I I STARTLING STATEMENT COMES FROM CHINESE CAPITAL I I 1 Proclamation Ordering Punishment of High Officials Declared to be a I Forgery nnd Repudiated by Li Peking Monday Oct 1It Is regarded re-garded as certain that the Imperial edict ordering the punishment of high officials was forged and was concocted I cocted with the Idea of preventing all the advances on Pao Ting Lu Prince I Thing and Earl LI Hung Chang deny I Its authority Count von Waldersee Is expected to arrive here October 17th Small marauding bands have become troublesome In thc vicinity of tho I summer palace and a punitive expedition expe-dition Is being organized to proceed I against them |