Deseret Evening News | 1900-02-20 | Page 5 | China's Warlike Edict

I ChINAS AS lm m O RII amid J retch Said to lie be the lie Dowager Victoria n B C Feb warlike secret edict edlet ht has ben been issued by the empress dowager or of Chinn China on her own According to time the North orl ChinA herald she Ahe has dispatched n a cIrcular to tIme governors and of appealing to 10 them t to resist b by for force ot of arms al all fur tur thor ther aggressions b by fo foreign lr powers on en Chinese sl soil The edict cal rafts upon Jh he governors to r resist al all aggression nd protect their ancestral homes homs and graves from the invader Ly by roro force of t arms It if neN necessary without In from Al All the papers s say that th the Ind and are backing the hond or of the empress In her act or of dethroning the young emperor