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Show ?-M '"aaaaTBTeTaTtl TO PIIBVENT INVABION. Clit.s Tries lo lllarf Ilia 1'nt.art Tnm MareMnx Ipon l'.kln. A new Imperial edict bat been pro promulgated In China ordering all vice-rots vice-rots and provincial governora to en iletvor to negotiate ieac with the onirs, whose ministers are held at hesttge pending the result of the over-tares over-tares for the abandonment of hostilities hostili-ties against China." Tlir vleernya are also commanded to reard tlielr trrrlttirlr vigilantly agtlntt attack and to prevent by all reesnt In tlielr power the advance of tbe foreign troops, especially along the Yang Tan K'lang. Tlie decree taya the IaCi. lalt will antwer with their Uvea for 'snt failure to execute these orders. I i iiiumanda nro also given that not a ingle foreigner shall ho ftttnwed to I eseape from the Interior, where there tre fully J.ooo Huroprant connected with the missionary work In bolated situations. When tho governor of Shan Tung communicated to the consuls the Imperial Im-perial decree of July SI, ho omitted important passages addressed to LI Hung Chang, at follows: "It It admittedly advltahle toktll all the ministers, but It It equally .unwise to send them to Tien Tsln. It will be mm h wiser lo keep tho survivors at Pekin as hustagea. You Are commanded to hasten to I'eWln. You are Incurring Imperial I displeasure by delay. You have been appointed viceroy of Chi LI, because, with your military experience, you will successfully lend tlie imperial armies against the foreigners In fill LI, which u Lu, the present viceroy, U enable to do, owing to hit Ignorance of intll ttry alTalra." LI Hung Chang replied to the edict, taking to bo allowed to retire, on account ac-count of hit age. |