Ogden Morning Examiner | 1909-01-03 | Page 13 | Peking is Given a Shock by the Issuing of a Surprising Edict

IS A S OCK BY ISSUING OF A EDICT Manchu Plot to Which the Japanese Have Nave Been Privy is Supposed to toBe toBe Be Back hack of the Dismissal From Office of the Grand Councillor Who Befriended Foreigners During Boxer Uprising Pelting Peking Jan 2 An edict issued to today today i day ay dismisses from office Yuan Slut Sin Kal Kai grand annul councillor and of the tho forces The reason given glon for this action Is IB that he haa has rheumatism of oi the tho leg The Tho edict orders or orrt dort ders rt Yuan Shi Kal ICal to vacate all his I ounces offices and aud to return to his homo home add adding adding ing lUg Thus our clemency toward tow ld you OU is rs manifested A second edict appoints Nn Tune Tung comptroller of customs anc ana ex gover governor nor of Poking Pelting grand councillor pre In Yuan Shi Kals place Tho The members of or the tho diplomatic diplomat corps corpo at Poking Peking aro are thun Umu thunderstruck at the Ibo sudden on dismissal o 0 Yuan Shi Kal Kai The stop Is I Ui to be tho the outcome of a Manchu plot I nod and there thoro are nrc Indications that the tho lueso representatives alono alone had any Inkling of what was on root