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Show CHEN PI LOSES FAVOR. Peking, Feb. 6. Chen Pi. president of the board of communication, and three under-secretaries or the board, were today dismissed in disgrace. Recent dispatches from Peking set forth that Chen PI had been impeached impeach-ed on charges of corruption. The recent re-cent failure of the board or communications communi-cations to float a domestic loan of $5,000,000, for the purpose of paying the Bhareholders of the national telegraph' tele-graph' system, embarrassed the government gov-ernment seriously, and Chen PI. In December, De-cember, began negotiations with British, Brit-ish, French, German and Japaneso bankers for this money. The terms imposed were described as humiliating humiliat-ing to the central government. Chen PI is the second high official to be dismissed from office since the death of the emperor anc aowager empress of China last. November. His dismissal follows that of Yuan Sht ( Kai, a member of tho grana council, by about five weeks. Chen PI is a native of Fuklen. He Is a metropolitan graduate of 1877. and he has held various puo:tc ornces, including the governorship of Peking. ince 1901. . |