Show the dowager empress gives orders to suppress all public meetings in peem government is str v ng to fill a con 1 pos t on between revo lut conary ag gators and those who feel eved pekin the dowager empress has given verbal ardeis to the interior department and to the police to suppress all public meetings in pekin and there Is reason to believe that this order will be extended to the provinces the popular agitation along the lines of rights recovery is growing in a phenomenal manner the ques alon of provincial as against federal sovereignty enters largely into the matter omens societies schools tor bos and girls the family news papers and the political press all are participating in ane agitation and for a month past the government here has been receiving telegrams in in creasing numbers expressing the strong desire of the senders that the rights have been alienated from them by foreigners be restored to the chinese the movement has reached such magnitude that the government is thoroughly alarmed and it is today striving to fill a conciliatory position between the revolutionary agitators and those who consider themselves to be aggrieved the people of che kiang province have sent some dele gates here to protect their interests these delegates the foreign board has taken into its confidence opening its ar chieves to them and asking them to make a careful examination of the position of the chinese government with regard to great britain and then to recommend a solution of the difficulty the reception accorded these chiv ilian delegates by the government and the admission of representatives of provincial councils into state af fairs at pekin is without precedent and is believed to constitute what can be called the thin edge of the wedge which Is to give constitutional rights it shows also the importance of the agitation which has been go ng on in ce klang province and which undoubtedly is the cause of the recent edict by the throne |