THE CHINESE COUP D'ETAT.
THE EMPEROR STILL ALIVE. BUT HE HAS PRACTICALLY ABDICATED. HIS LATE ADVISER IN PLIGHT. [PKESS ASSOCIATION.] Shanghai, 24th September. The Emperor and all the high officials paid homage to the Do wager-Em press, who interpreted the act as an abdication on the part of the Emperor. Pekin is said to be apathetic at the turn affairs have taken. The Government describes Kang Kn Wei, ■who was expelled from the Tsung-li Yamen for his advocacy of the Western principles which the Emperor was announced as having adopted, as a degraded criminal. Xaug has disappeared, and a British steamer has searched in vain for traces of him. If he had been arrested he was to have beeu executed on the ground of attempted murder of the Emperor. The British fleet is cruising in. the Gulf of Pechili.
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Evening Post, Volume LVI, Issue 75, 26 September 1898, Page 5
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139THE CHINESE COUP D'ETAT. Evening Post, Volume LVI, Issue 75, 26 September 1898, Page 5
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