THE CHINESE COURT.
'DEATH OF THE DOWAGER- : EMPRESS. . IPresa Assn — By telegraph — Copyright. . . . PEKIN, yesterday. ;• . - Tho Dowager Empress of China <died on Sunday. ■ '.... No trouble is anticipated over her Remise, butcher unexpected death, ( so Sqon afjor issuing a <lecreo appointing PuyLEmperor. and- Prince ';>CbArn§ilegent, excites suspicionof foul Cjrtfty; a$ Pokin. v ' :£f v Xcoof<iirig to prince Chun* shortly nfc(f«re her death she- advised him to consult the neAV Empress on all serious questions, but all accounts rtgree this lady is a complete nonentity. .-..'.' The lato Emperor apparently died of neurasthenia. After lying in a 'state of coma since Thursday, he recovered consciousness on Saturday, but refused to be removed to the payis lion of peaceful longevity, thus violating preeedontj and expired without' donning tho proper robes or indicating the- sito of his mausoleum. --■■ , A hundred days of mourning will ibo observed for the Ehmperor and . twenty-seven ' months in the case of the Dowager. . ■ '-
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Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 118, 17 November 1908, Page 5
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153THE CHINESE COURT. Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 118, 17 November 1908, Page 5
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