THE CRISIS IN CHINA.
REPORTED SUICIDE OF THE
EMPEROR,
Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright,
SHANGHAI, October 4. The anti-foreign feeling is spreading in Pekin. The fleets of the various Powers are assembling at Tientsin. The servants of the Dowager Empress arrested the Emperor when ho was trying to escape from the palace. The Emperor was ill and helpless at the time. It is reported that he has since committed suicide. WASHINGTON, October 4. fhe American gunboat Petrel accompanies the Baltimore to China.
WILY AMBASSADORS?,
SHANGHAI, October 4.
(Received October 5,1898, at 9.16 a.m.)
It is rumored that the Foreign Ambassadors at Pekin were aware that the Emperor showed signs of arsenical poisoning before the issue of the Dowager Empress’s edict expressing regret at the Emperor’s increasing ill-health.
The wife of tho Italian Minitter at Pekin has been attacked bv tbe Chinese.
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Evening Star, Issue 10746, 5 October 1898, Page 2
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