" OFF WITH HIS HEAD."
The Pekin and Tientsin Time* contains tho following proclamation, issued by Yuan Shikai, the powerful Viceroy of Pechili :— 1. Any ono creating wild rumours calculated to alarm or produce doubt in tho people's mmc' will be beheaded. 2. Any ona teaching or learning mystic practices like Boxer measures and red lantern doctrines will be beheadod. 3. All persons gathering together for purposes of plunder or forcible disorder will be beheaded. 4. Any one in tho Government service, military or civil, found connecting himself in n«y way with people (spreading btrangc doctrines, or connected with disorders, will be beheaded. 5. For the harboring of those who spread wild doctrines and mischievous beliefs, tho head of tho family will be imprisoned for fivo years and all tho property confiscated.
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Evening Post, Volume LXVII, Issue 150, 25 June 1904, Page 15
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131" OFF WITH HIS HEAD." Evening Post, Volume LXVII, Issue 150, 25 June 1904, Page 15
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