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Show Shanghai Journalists Safe From Imperial Im-perial Wrath. JPeking, Aug. ". It is understood here that the editors and staff of the Chinese Chi-nese reform newspaper Supao, published pub-lished at Shanghai, against whom warrants war-rants of arrest have been issued on ; the charge of publishing seditious matter, mat-ter, can be surrendered only by the unanimous consent of the foreign consuls con-suls at that port. This cannot be obtained ob-tained as the representative of Great t Britain has been instructed not . to grant his consent. It has been report- ! ed Jiare that the foreigners- in Shanghai Shang-hai were organizing to prevent the sur- ' render of the accused men by force in case such action had been attempted. Five reformers were arrested In Peking Pe-king yesterday, one of them being a brother of the ranking viceroy. All the gates of the city arc being closely guarded to prevent the escape of suspect sus-pect r. " |