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Show . ' Government Issues Edict. London, May 30. A special dispatch from Shanghai, dated today, says: "Yesterday the Chinese government issued an edict prohibiting the "Boxers'" "Box-ers'" organization, under penalty of death. The edict, which was signed by the emperor, was couched in equivocal terms, and was promulgated more as an excuse than in condemnation of the movement." The Daily Mail has received the following fol-lowing from Tien Tsin, dated May 30: "Heavy fighting has taken place between be-tween the imperial troops and the Box- 1 ers at Lai-Shin-Hi-Sien, but the result j is not known here. Railway traffic at ; Pekin has been resumed. "The foreign settlement here is sufficiently suf-ficiently protected by the American and Japanese troops which have been landed. land-ed. Consequently the excitement has abated." , |