Poison or the Sword.
Two Manchus who have arrived at Shanghai certify to the truth of the statement that Prince Tuan visited the palace and offered the Emperor and Dowager Empress the alternative of poison or sword. The Emperor, they say, took poison, and died within an hour. The Dowager Empress also chose poison, but craftily swallowed only a portion of what was offered her and survived. On the same day the Chinese Customs bureau was destroyed, Sir Robert Hart and his staff escaping to the Legations.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 9835, 7 August 1900, Page 2
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