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Show DOWAGER GOES TO WU TAISHAN Washington, Aug. 22. The Japanese legation has received a telegram, dated Aug. 21, from the foreign office at Tokjo, giving the following dispatch received yesterday from the Japanese consul general at Shanghai: "A dispatch received here from a Chinese official at Pao-Ting-Fu says that, by the empress dowager's orders, Hsui Yung Yi, Lishan and Lien Yuen, were executed on the lith. and Yung Lu, who was to have shared the same fate, is now in a jail of the judicial department, and that the emperor and empress dowager left Pekin on the 13th; escorted by Tung Fu Shiangs troops for Wu Taishan, via Chuchow and Tse Chiang Kwan." Kang Ye. it is further stated, has been appointed commander-in-chief of the Wu Wei army, while Princes Tuan and Shwang and Tsong Chi, Kang Yi and Psui Tung have been ordered to remain at Pekin. "Another telegram, dated the 16th, has been received here from Pao Ting Fu, to the effect that though the empress em-press dowager has Jeft Pekin, the emperor em-peror has recided to remain behind." |
